Interpretation
2. In these Regulations–
“adoption agency” means a local authority or an approved adoption society within the meaning of the 1978 Act;
“court” means an authorised court as defined in section 56 of the 1978 Act;
“the 1978 Act” means the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978(1);
“the 1995 Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;
“panel” means a panel of persons established under regulation 3 below for a local authority area;
“the Sheriff Principal” means the Sheriff Principal or the Sheriff’s Principal, as the case may be, within whose jurisdiction the local authority area, or the relevant part of the local authority area, lies.
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