{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/56",
  "legislation_title": "Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Search warrants.",
  "text": "A refusal to allow the visiting of a foster child or the inspection of any premises by a person authorised to do so under under this Act shall be treated, for the purposes of 36 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1)(child assessment orders) as giving the local authority reasonable cause for the suspicion mentioned in subsection (2)(a) of that section.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para. 35(6); S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7) (as amended by S.I. 1997/744, arts. 2, 3) (which substitution fell (1.8.1997) by 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 19(3)(d), Sch. 3; S.I. 1997/1712, art. 3, Sch.) and those words substituted (1.8.1997) by virtue of 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1), Sch. 1 para. 11; S.I. 1997/1712, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (24.6.2013) by The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (24.6.2013) by The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 5(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/56/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:02.861682+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."
}