{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-2020/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-2020/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2020/16",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Scotland) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Duty to consider contact when making etc. compulsory supervision order",
  "text": "(1) The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 29A (duty to consider including contact direction), after subsection (2), insert—\n“(3) In considering whether to include a measure of the type mentioned in section 83(2)(g), the children's hearing or, as the case may be, the sheriff must in particular consider the inclusion of a measure regulating contact between the child and any person mentioned in subsection (4) with whom the child does not reside.\n(4) The persons referred to in subsection (3) are—\n(a) a relevant person in relation to the child,\n(b) a sibling of the child,\n(c) any other person with whom the child has resided and with whom the child has an ongoing relationship with the character of a relationship between siblings.\n(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), two people are siblings if they have at least one parent in common.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 26.7.2021 by S.S.I. 2020/412, reg. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/16/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:43.330136+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."
}