PART 5 E+W

Appropriate persons and detained persons lacking capacity E+W

Where a child's parent lacks capacity E+W

31.—(1) If the appropriate person is the child's parent and the parent lacks capacity at the relevant time, references in—

(a) Part 3 of the Act, and

(b) these Regulations,

to the appropriate person are to be read as references to a representative of the parent.

(2) If the child's parent lacks capacity at the relevant time references to a child's parent in these regulations, except the reference in regulation 6(1)(b)(iv), are to be read as references to a representative of the parent.