
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Accommodation of Children (Charge and Control) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st January 1991.
2 
In the Accommodation of Children (Charge and Control) Regulations 1988 –
(a) in regulation 3(1) (Consultation and notification) there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Subject to regulation 6A”;
(b) in regulation 5 (enquiries before placement decisions) there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Subject to regulation 6A,”, and
(c) after regulation 6 there shall be inserted the following regulation–“
6A 
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2), nothing in regulation 3 or regulation 5 shall prevent the immediate placement of a child in circumstances in which the local authority consider that to be necessary and in accordance with their general duty under section 18 of the Act and in such a case the authority shall take steps to ensure that the provisions of these Regulations that would otherwise have to be complied with before the placement decision is made are complied with as soon as practicable thereafter.
(2) Before an immediate placement is made pursuant to this regulation a local authority shall–
(a) satisfy the provisions of regulations 4 and 6;
(b) arrange for the person with whom the child is to be placed to be interviewed in order to obtain as many of the particulars specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 as can be readily obtained at the interview;
(c) obtain as many of the particulars referred to in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 in respect of other members of the household of the person with whom the child is to be placed, as can be readily obtained.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Stephen Dorrell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
3rd December 1990