Regulation 3 Establishment of panels

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3(1) word omitted by Curators ad Litem and Reporting Officers (Panels) and the Panels of Persons to Safeguard the Interests of Children 2011 reg. 2(3)(a)
reg. 3(1) words substituted by Curators ad Litem and Reporting Officers (Panels) and the Panels of Persons to Safeguard the Interests of Children 2011 reg. 2(3)(b)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) there shall be continued for each local authority area a panel of persons from whom curators ad litem and reporting officers may be appointed for the purposes of section 87(4) of the 1995 Act and section 58 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978^f1.

(2)

A local authority may, after consultation with the Sheriff Principal as to the desirability of their doing so, establish for their area more than one such panel, and may establish separate panels for the appointment of curators ad litem and reporting officers.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1978 c. 28. Section 58 was amended by the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 Schedule 2 paragraph 26.