{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-29A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-29A.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/29A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29A",
  "heading": "Duty to consider including contact direction",
  "text": "(1) A children’s hearing must, when making, varying or continuing a compulsory supervision order in relation to a child, consider whether to include in the order a measure of the type mentioned in section 83(2)(g).\n(2) A sheriff must, when varying or continuing a compulsory supervision order in relation to a child, consider whether to include in the order a measure of the type mentioned in section 83(2)(g).\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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 29A inserted (24.6.2013) by The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 20(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 29A(3)-(5) inserted (26.7.2021) by Children (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 16), ss. 14(2), 34(2); S.S.I. 2020/412, reg. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/29A",
    "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."
}