{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-81A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-81A.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/81A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81A",
  "heading": "Determination that deeming of person as relevant person to end",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a matter mentioned in section 79(5A)(a) is referred to a meeting of a pre-hearing panel.\n(2) Where the matter is referred along with any other matter, the pre-hearing panel must determine it before determining the other matter.\n(3) The pre-hearing panel must determine that the individual is no longer to be deemed to be a relevant person if it considers that the individual does not have (and has not recently had) a significant involvement in the upbringing of the child.\n(4) Where the pre-hearing panel makes a determination as described in subsection (3), section 81(4) ceases to apply in relation to the individual.\n(5) Where, by virtue of section 80(3), the children's hearing is to determine a matter mentioned in section 79(5A)(a), references in subsections (2) to (4) to the pre-hearing panel are to be read as references to the children's hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 81A inserted (26.1.2015) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 84(3), 102(3); S.S.I. 2014/353, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/81A",
    "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."
}