{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-168",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-168.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/1",
  "legislation_title": "Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/168",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "168",
  "heading": "Enforcement of orders",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where a relevant order authorising the keeping of a child in a particular place (an “authorised place”) is in force in relation to a child.\n(2) An officer of law may enforce the order—\n(a) by searching for and apprehending the child,\n(b) by taking the child to the authorised place,\n(c) where—\n(i) it is not reasonably practicable to take the child immediately to the authorised place, ...\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nby taking the child to and detaining the child in a place of safety for as short a period of time as is practicable, and\n(d) so far as is necessary, by breaking open shut and lockfast places.\n(3) In this section, “relevant order” means—\n(a) a child assessment order,\n(b) a child protection order,\n(c) an order under section 55,\n(d) a compulsory supervision order,\n(e) an interim compulsory supervision order,\n(f) a medical examination order.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 168(2)(c)(ii) and word preceding it omitted (24.6.2013) by virtue of The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 20(17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 168 applied by 1989 c. 41, s. 25(8A) (as inserted (27.4.2017) by Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), s. 70(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 2(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 168 modified (24.6.2022) by The Cross-border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/225), regs. 1, 13(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 168-171 applied (with modifications) (9.2.2026) by The Cross-border Placement of Children (Requirements, Effect and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/31), regs. 1, 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 168 in force at 24.6.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/195, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/168",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:14.891873+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."
}