Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011

40 Information non-disclosure directions

(1) This section applies where the sheriff makes a child protection order in respect of a child.

(2) The sheriff must consider whether to include an information non-disclosure direction in the order.

(3) An information non-disclosure direction is a direction that—

(a) the location of any place of safety at which the child is being kept, and

(b) any other information specified in the direction relating to the child,

must not be disclosed (directly or indirectly) to any person or class of person specified in the direction.

(4) An information non-disclosure direction ceases to have effect when—

(a) it is terminated by a children’s hearing under section 47(1)(a)(ii) or the sheriff under section 51(5)(b), or

(b) the child protection order in which it is included ceases to have effect.