Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007

97 Interim orders and revocation of supervision requirement

(1) Subsection (2) applies where an application is made for a permanence order, or variation of such an order, in respect of a child.

(2) The appropriate court may make such interim order as it thinks fit.

(3) Subsection (4) applies where—

(a) the child in respect of whom an interim order is to be made is subject to a supervision requirement, and

(b) the court is satisfied that, were it to make an interim order in relation to the child, compulsory measures of supervision in respect of the child would no longer be necessary.

(4) The court must make an order providing that, on the making of the interim order, the supervision requirement ceases to have effect.

(5) If—

(a) the child in respect of whom an interim order is made is subject to a supervision requirement, and

(b) the provisions of the order conflict, or are otherwise inconsistent, with the requirement,

the provisions of the order prevail.

(6) In subsection (1), the reference to variation of a permanence order includes a reference to amendment of the order to include provision granting authority for the child to whom the order relates to be adopted.