1. Title. These Rules may be cited as the Foster Care Placement Rules. 2. Interpretation. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires— (a) “approved home” means a home approved by the Minister; (b) “child” means a person below the age of eighteen years; (c) “commissioner” means the Commissioner for Social Welfare; (d) “foster child” means a child placed with a foster parent or foster family; (e) “foster family” means a family in which a child is placed; (f) “foster parent” means a person with whom a child is placed under these Rules; (g) “supervising officer” means the district probation and social welfare officer or a responsible person delegated by him or her to act on his or her behalf. 3. Application of rules. These Rules apply to the placement of a child with foster parents by a probation and social welfare officer. 4. Application to foster a child. Any person interested in fostering a child shall complete the application form specified in Form 1 of the Schedule to these Rules and submit it to the district probation and social welfare officer or to the warden of an approved home. 5. Persons qualified to foster children. (1) (a) (b) (c) The following persons may apply to be foster parents— a husband and wife, but if a man has more than one wife, the name of the wife who is to be the foster mother shall be clearly stated; a single woman not below the age of twenty-one years; or a single man not below the age of twenty-one years. (2) A single man may not foster a female child under this Act.