# Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Section 89: Principal Reporter's duty to prepare statement of grounds


(1) This section applies where the Principal Reporter is required by virtue of section 69(2) to arrange a children's hearing in relation to a child.
(2) The Principal Reporter must prepare the statement of grounds.
(3) In this Act “statement of grounds”, in relation to a child, means a statement setting out—
(a) which of the section 67 grounds the Principal Reporter believes applies in relation to the child, and
(b) the facts on which that belief is based.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/89 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-89
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