{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-rules-1996/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-rules-1996/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3261",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Application for suspension of supervision requirements pending hearing of appeals",
  "text": "(1) An application to a children’s hearing by a child or relevant person under section 51(9) of the Act for the suspension of a supervision requirement pending an appeal under section 51(1) of the Act shall be made in writing to the Principal Reporter.\n(2) The Principal Reporter shall give notice in writing separately to the child and relevant person of the date, time and place of the children’s hearing at which the application will be considered.\n(3) The children’s hearing shall afford the applicant, and his representative, and any safeguarder if attending the hearing, an opportunity of being heard.\n(4) The chairman of the children’s hearing shall inform the applicant at the conclusion of the hearing of the decision of the hearing and the reasons for it.\n(5) If the applicant fails to attend the hearing, the application shall be treated as abandoned.\n(6) An application under this rule shall not be valid unless an appeal under section 51(1) of the Act has already been lodged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3261/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:32.164513+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."
}