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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-rules-of-procedure-in-childrens-hearings-rules-2013/article-4",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2013/9780111020326",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rules of Procedure in Children’s Hearings) Rules 2013",
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  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Selection of chairing member for pre-hearing panels and children’s hearings",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a pre-hearing panel or children’s hearing has been arranged by virtue of the Act or any other enactment and the National Convener or relevant area support team has not selected a chairing member for that pre-hearing panel or children’s hearing.\n(2) Immediately before beginning the pre-hearing panel or children’s hearing, as the case may be, the members of that pre-hearing panel or children’s hearing must determine which of their number is to chair the pre-hearing panel or children’s hearing, as the case may be.\n(3) A member may only be selected to chair a children’s hearing if that member has successfully completed the relevant training provided by or on behalf of the National Convener relating to chairing a children’s hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2013/9780111020326/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:36:13.669192+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."
}