The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016

319.  In section 197 (general interpretation and index of defined expressions)— E+W

(a) in subsection (1) for the definition of “local authority foster parent” substitute—

““local authority foster parent” (“rhiant maeth awdurdod lleol”) means a person authorised as such in accordance with regulations made by virtue of—

(a)

sections 87 and 93;

(b)

paragraph 12F of Schedule 2 to the Children Act 1989 (regulations providing for approval of local authority foster parents);”;

(b) for subsection (2)(b) substitute—

“(b) a reference to a child looked after by a local authority in England has the same meaning as a reference in section 22 of the Children Act 1989 to a child who is looked after by a local authority in England;”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 319 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 2(1)