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Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Section 81A is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 27 July 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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[81ADetermination that deeming of person as relevant person to endS
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(1)This section applies where a matter mentioned in section 79(5A)(a) is referred to a meeting of a pre-hearing panel.
(2)Where the matter is referred along with any other matter, the pre-hearing panel must determine it before determining the other matter.
(3)The pre-hearing panel must determine that the individual is no longer to be deemed to be a relevant person if it considers that the individual does not have (and has not recently had) a significant involvement in the upbringing of the child.
(4)Where the pre-hearing panel makes a determination as described in subsection (3), section 81(4) ceases to apply in relation to the individual.
(5)Where, by virtue of section 80(3), the children's hearing is to determine a matter mentioned in section 79(5A)(a), references in subsections (2) to (4) to the pre-hearing panel are to be read as references to the children's hearing.]
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