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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Children (Secure Accommodation) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 23rd June 1995.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations 1991.
2 
In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) there shall be inserted after the definition of “the Act” the following definition—“
 “children’s home” means a registered children’s home, a community home or a voluntary home;”.
3 
In regulations 3, 4, 9, 14, 15, 16(1)(b) and 17 of the principal Regulations for the words “community home” on each occasion they appear there shall be substituted the words “children’s home”.
4 
In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (duty to give information of placement in children’s homes) for the words “in a community home which is managed by an authority other than that which are looking after him the local authority which manage” there shall be substituted the words “in a children’s home which is managed by a person, organization or authority other than the local authority which is looking after him, the person who, or the organization or the authority which manages”.
5 
In regulation 16(2) of the principal Regulations (review of placement in secure accommodation in a children’s home) for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(f) the person, organization or local authority managing the secure accommodation in which the child is placed if that accommodation is not managed by the authority which is looking after that child.”.
6 
Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations (prohibition on provision of secure accommodation by voluntary homes and registered children’s homes) is revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
John Bowis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health
1st June 1995