Part 1Children’s care system

Chapter 1Support etc. for persons in or with experience of children’s care system

Interpretation

13Interpretation

(1)In this Chapter—

(2)Subsection (3) applies in relation to a person who was, while a child, detained in secure accommodation by virtue of section 51(1)(a), 205(2), 208(1) or, as the case may be, 216(7) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.

(3)The person is to be regarded for the purposes of this Chapter as having been looked after, during the person’s detention, by the relevant local authority in relation to the child.

(4)In subsection (3), the “relevant local authority” in relation to the child has the same meaning as in section 201 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011.