# Children (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 18: Duty of persons with parental responsibilities to notify change of address to local authority looking after child.


(1) Where a child is being looked after by a local authority, each natural person who has parental responsibilities in relation to the child shall, without unreasonable delay, inform that authority whenever the person changes his address.
(2) A person who knowingly fails to comply with the requirement imposed by subsection (1) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of level 1 on the standard scale; but in any proceedings under this section it shall be a defence that—
(a) the change was to the same address as that to which another person who at that time had parental responsibilities in relation to the child was changing; and
(b) the accused had reasonable cause to believe that the other person had informed the authority of the change of address of them both.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/36/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/section-18
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