{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-safeguarders-panel-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-safeguarders-panel-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/61",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Safeguarders Panel) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-safeguarders-panel-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Tenure of appointment and removal of members",
  "text": "For paragraphs (3) to (5) of regulation 7 substitute—\n“(3) A person who is appointed as a member of the Safeguarders Panel may, at the end of their period of appointment or, as the case may be, reappointment, be reappointed as a member of the Safeguarders Panel only if the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the person is fit to be a member of the Safeguarders Panel.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may remove a member from the Safeguarders Panel if at any point they consider that that person is not fit to be a member of the Safeguarders Panel.\n(5) In assessing whether a person is fit to be a member of the Safeguarders Panel for the purpose of paragraph (3) or (4), the Scottish Ministers may in particular have regard to—\n(a) the person’s conduct;\n(b) whether the person has failed to comply with any requirement in that person’s letter of appointment or, as the case may be, reappointment; and\n(c) whether the person has been able and willing to operate in accordance with the Practice Standards.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/61/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:21.218996+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."
}