{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-50.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/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Tests for referral to Principal Reporter and making of compulsory supervision order or interim compulsory supervision order",
  "text": "(1) The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 60 (local authority’s duty to provide information to Principal Reporter), in subsection (2)(b), for “might be” substitute “is likely to be”.\n(3) In section 61 (constable’s duty to provide information to Principal Reporter), in subsection (1)(b), for “might be” substitute “is likely to be”.\n(4) In section 64 (provision of information by other persons), in subsection (1)(b), for “might be” substitute “is likely to be”.\n(5) In section 66 (investigation and determination by Principal Reporter), in subsection (1)(b), for “that a child might be” substitute “likely that a child is”.\n(6) In each of the provisions listed in subsection (7), after “protection,” insert “support,”.\n(7) The provisions are—\nsection 60(2)(a),\nsection 61(1)(a),\nsection 64(1)(a),\nsection 66(1)(b),\nsection 91(3)(a),\nsection 92(2),\nsection 93(5),\nsection 95(4),\nsection 96(3),\nsection 98(4),\nsection 99(4),\nsection 100(2),\nsection 109(3),\nsection 109(5),\nsection 115(3),\nsection 117(3),\nsection 119(3)(a),\nsection 120(3),\nsection 120(5),\nsection 138(4),\nsection 139(3).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 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/50",
    "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."
}