{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-3.33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-3.33.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/291",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Child Care and Maintenance Rules) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997",
  "path": "rule/3.33",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.33",
  "heading": "Application to vary or terminate a child protection order",
  "text": "(1) An application under section 48 of the 2011 Act for the variation or termination of a child protection order ... shall be made in Form 52.\n(2) A person applying under section 48 of the 2011 Act for the variation or termination of a child protection order shall require to lodge with his application a copy of that order.\n(3) Without prejudice to rule 3.5, any person on whom service is made under section 49 of the 2011 Act may appear or be represented at the hearing of the application.\n(4) ... The sheriff, after hearing parties and allowing such further procedure as he thinks fit, shall grant or refuse the application.\n(5) Where an order is made granting the application for variation, that order shall be in Form 53.\n(6) Where the sheriff so directs, intimation of the granting or refusing of an application shall be given by the applicant to such person as the sheriff shall direct.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.33(1) substituted (24.6.2013) by Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(a)(i) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.33(1) substituted (24.6.2013) by Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(a)(ii) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.33(1) omitted (24.6.2013) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(a)(iii) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.33(2) substituted (24.6.2013) by Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(b)(i) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.33(2) substituted (24.6.2013) by Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(b)(ii) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.33(3) inserted (24.6.2013) by Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(c) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.33(4) omitted (24.6.2013) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(d) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Rule 3.33 heading substituted (24.6.2013) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011) (Miscellaneous Amendments) 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/172), paras. 1(1), 3(26)(e) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.33 in force at 1.4.1997, see rule 1.1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/291/rule/3.33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:57.022825+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}