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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-5",
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  "legislation_title": "Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Children's hearing",
  "text": "A children's hearing consists of three members of the Children's Panel selected in accordance with section 6 for the purpose of carrying out functions conferred on a children's hearing by virtue of this Act or any other enactment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 applied by 1985 c. 60, s. 20(6) (as inserted (24.6.2013) by The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1465), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 24.6.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/195, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words in s. 6 renumbered as s. 6(a)",
      "affecting": "asp/2026/16",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "asp/2026/16",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026"
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    "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."
}