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(1)The Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003 is amended as follows.
(2)In section 4 (promoting and safeguarding rights), after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A)In exercising that general function the Commissioner may—
(a)bring proceedings under section 7(1)(a) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024,
(b)intervene in proceedings in which a person claims that a public authority has acted (or proposes to act) in a way which is made unlawful by section 6(1) of that Act.”.
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