The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2013

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2013 and comes into force on 24th June 2013.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011; and

“the 1995 Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995(1).

Appointed day

2.—(1) 24th June 2013 is the appointed day for the coming into force of all the provisions of the Act, so far as not then in force, for all purposes, other than those provisions specified in article 3.

3.  The provisions of the Act referred to in article 2 are—

(a) section 122 (children’s advocacy services);

(b) section 187 (Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974: treatment of certain disposals by children’s hearings);

(c) section 188 (criminal record certificates);

(d) section 203(1) (consequential amendments and repeals) and paragraph 2(10) of schedule 5 (minor and consequential amendments) insofar as the amendment of the definition of “children’s hearing” in section 93(1) (interpretation) of the 1995 Act has effect in relation to section 44 of that Act; and

(e) section 203(2) and schedule 6 (repeals) insofar as they provide for—

(i) the repeal of provisions in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(2);

(ii) the repeal of section 44 of the 1995 Act; and

(iii) in the partial repeal of section 105(8) of the 1995 Act, the repeal of the word “44”.

AILEEN CAMPBELL

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th June 2013