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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-rules-of-procedure-in-childrens-hearings-rules-2013/article-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure at children’s hearings and pre-hearing panels where not otherwise specified",
  "text": "(1) The procedure at any children’s hearing or pre-hearing panel required to be held by virtue of the Act or any other enactment, unless that procedure is provided for under the Act or these Rules, is to be determined by the chairing member.\n(2) The children’s hearing or pre-hearing panel, if it considers it appropriate to do so, may adjourn the children’s hearing or pre-hearing panel, as the case may be—\n(a) on the initiative of the children’s hearing or pre-hearing panel; or\n(b) on the request of any person attending the hearing.\n(3) Where a children’s hearing or pre-hearing panel has been adjourned it must re-convene on the same day as the adjournment was made.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2013/9780111020326/article/7",
    "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."
}