(1)The persons listed, or within a description listed, in schedule 3, are “listed authorities” for the purposes of this Part (subject to subsections (3) and (4)).
(2)The Scottish Ministers may by order modify schedule 3 by—
(a)adding a person or description of persons,
(b)removing an entry listed in it, or
(c)varying an entry listed in it.
(3)The Scottish Ministers are not a listed authority for the purposes of sections 41 and 42.
(4)The following persons are not listed authorities for the purposes of section 42—
(a)the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland,
(b)a body which is a “post-16 education body” for the purposes of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005.
(5)An order under subsection (2) which adds a person, or a description of persons, to schedule 3, may modify this section so as to provide that the person is not a listed authority, or the persons within the description are not listed authorities, for the purposes of section 42.