{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-3.51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-child-care-and-maintenance-rules-1997/rule-3.51.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/3.51",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.51",
  "heading": "Decision of sheriff",
  "text": "(1) Subject to rule 3.47(3), the sheriff shall give his decision orally at the conclusion of the hearing.\n(2) The sheriff clerk shall forthwith send a copy of the interlocutor containing that decision to–\n(a) the child, except where service on the child has been dispensed with in terms of rule 3.3;\n(b) any relevant person whose whereabouts are known;\n(c) any safeguarder and curator ad litem;\n(d) the Principal Reporter; and\n(e) such other persons as the sheriff may direct.\n(3) The sheriff may, when giving his decision in terms of paragraph (1) or within 7 days thereafter, issue a note of the reasons for his decision and the sheriff clerk shall forthwith send a copy of such a note to the persons referred to in paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.51(2)(c) 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(39)(a) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 3.51(2)(e) and word 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(39)(b) (with para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.51 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/3.51",
    "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."
}