{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2026/16",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Other duties",
  "text": "(1) Each local authority must establish a procedure for considering representations (including complaints) made to them by any person falling within section 1(2), (3) or (6) about the discharge of the local authority’s functions under sections 1 to 3.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision as to procedures established under subsection (1).\n(3) Subsection (4) applies where a local authority becomes aware that a person to whom the local authority is providing advice, guidance or assistance under section 1 has died.\n(4) The local authority must, as soon as reasonably practicable, notify—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers, and\n(b) Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 70(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/16/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:40.185391+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."
}