Section 20 Criteria for granting banning orderI1
The sheriff may grant a banning order only if satisfied—
(a)
that an adult at risk is being, or is likely to be, seriously harmed by another person,
(b)
that the adult at risk's well-being or property would be better safeguarded by banning that other person from a place occupied by the adult than it would be by moving the adult from that place, and
(c)
that either—
(i)
the adult at risk is entitled, or permitted by a third party, or
(ii)
neither the adult at risk nor the subject is entitled, or permitted by a third party,
to occupy the place from which the subject is to be banned.
Annotations
Commencement
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S. 20 in force at 29.10.2008 by S.S.I. 2008/314, art. 2