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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-amendment-rules-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1199",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-amendment-rules-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese rules amend the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Rules 1986 in connection with the provision of documents and information for the purposes of a children’s hearing.\nRule 2 provides for a new obligation on the Principal Reporter to give to each parent of a child whose case is to be considered by the children’s hearing a copy of any document, or information, at the same time as the document or information is being given to members of the children’s hearing. In the case of a hearing to continue consideration of the case, provision is made to apply that obligation only in respect of documents or information not already given to each parent.\nSection 183(5) and (6) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 applies to the existing provisions of the 1986 Rules, so that any reference in these Rules to a reporter appointed under section 36 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 is to be construed on and after 1st April 1996 as a reference to the Principal Reporter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1199/note",
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  "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."
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