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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/17",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Reports on investigations",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner must, at the conclusion of any investigation, prepare a report of the investigation.\n(2) The report must contain any recommendations by the Commissioner arising out of the investigation.\n(2A) In relation to any such recommendation, the report may include a requirement to respond.\n(2B) A requirement to respond is a requirement that the service provider provides, within such period as the Commissioner reasonably requires, a statement in writing to the Commissioner setting out—\n(a) what the service provider has done or proposes to do in response to the recommendation; or\n(b) if the service provider does not intend to do anything in response to the recommendation, the reasons for that.\n(3) A report of an investigation into the activities of a person named in, or identifiable from, the report may be finalised only if that person has, where this is reasonable and practicable, been given a copy of the draft report and an opportunity to make representations on it.\n(4) The Commissioner must lay before the Parliament the report of a general investigation.\n(5) The Commissioner may lay before the Parliament the report of an individual investigation.\n(6) Where a report of an investigation includes a requirement to respond, the Commissioner must give a copy of the report to the service provider.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 11(1) substituted (7.8.2017) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 5(4)(a), 102(3); S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(4) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 11(2A)(2B) inserted (7.8.2017) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 6(2)(a), 102(3); S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 11(3) substituted (7.8.2017) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 5(4)(b), 102(3); S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(4) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 11(4)(5) added (7.8.2017) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 5(4)(c), 102(3); S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(4) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 11(6) added (7.8.2017) by Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8), ss. 6(2)(b), 102(3); S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/17/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:42.714892+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."
}