Scottish Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 137
Children And Young Persons
The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Supplementary Provision) Order 2014
Made
20th May 2014
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
22nd May 2014
Coming into force
20th June 2014
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 204 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Supplementary Provision) Order 2014 and comes into force on 20th June 2014.
National Convener functions
2. Where the office of National Convener(2) is vacant or the National Convener is for any reason unable to act, the National Convener’s functions may be exercised during that period by a person designated by the chairing member(3) of CHS(4) or, where the chairing member of CHS is unable to act, by CHS.
AILEEN CAMPBELL
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
20th May 2014
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes provision supplementing the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011. The provision enables the chairing member of Children’s Hearings Scotland (“CHS”) or, in the event of the chairing member being unable to act, CHS itself to specify a person to exercise the functions of the National Convener of Children’s Hearings Scotland if the position of National Convener is vacant or the National Convener is unable to act.
Section 1(1) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”) provides that there is to be an officer to be known as the National Convener of Children’s Hearings Scotland. That officer is referred to in that Act as the National Convener.
Paragraph 7(1) of schedule 1 to the 2011 Act provides that the chairing member is one of the members of CHS appointed by Scottish Ministers to chair meetings of CHS.
Section 2 of the 2011 Act establishes a body corporate to be known as Children’s Hearings Scotland, referred to in that Act as CHS.