{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/section-95",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/4",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/95",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "95",
  "heading": "Duty of children's hearing to prepare report for court",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) an application is made for a permanence order, or variation of such an order, in respect of a child,\n(b) the application has not been determined (or, as the case may be, withdrawn or abandoned), and\n(c) a children's hearing proposes to make or vary (other than by interim variation, as defined in section 140 of the Children’s Hearing (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1) ) a compulsory supervision order in respect of the child.\n(2) The children's hearing must prepare for the court to which the application has been made a report containing such information as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations prescribe.\n(3) In subsection (1)(a), the reference to variation of a permanence order includes a reference to amendment of the order to include provision granting authority for the child to whom the order relates to be adopted.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 95(1)(c) substituted (24.6.2013) by The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 17(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 95(1)(3) in force at 28.9.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 95(2) in force at 20.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2009/147, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 95(2) in force at 28.9.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/4/section/95",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:02.274423+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."
}