3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below there shall be continued for each local government area a panel of persons from whom persons to safeguard the interests of children may be appointed for the purposes of section 41 of the 1995 Act.
(2) A local authority may, after consultation with the chairman of the children’s panel and the Sheriff Principal as to the desirability of their doing so, establish for their area more than one such panel.