{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transfer-of-childrens-hearings-cases-scotland-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transfer-of-childrens-hearings-cases-scotland-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/492",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transfer of Children’s Hearings Cases) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transfer-of-childrens-hearings-cases-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“children’s hearing” has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1968 Act;\n“existing authority” means any local authority within the meaning of section 1(2) of the 1968 Act;\n“new authority” means a council constituted by section 2 of the 1994 Act;\n“the Principal Reporter” has the same meaning as in section 127 of the 1994 Act;\n“the specified date” means 1st April 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 1(2) of the 1968 Act was amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 27, paragraph 183."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/492/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:05.093341+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."
}