Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
2011 asp 1
Commentary on Sections
Part 5 – Child Assessment and Child Protection Orders
Child assessment orders
Section 36 – Consideration by sheriff
38.This section relates to circumstances where a local authority has applied to the sheriff for a child assessment order. Subsection (2) sets out what the sheriff must be satisfied of before making the child assessment order. Subsection (3) enables the sheriff to make a child protection order instead of a child assessment order if the conditions in section 38(2) are satisfied.
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