The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2012

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 23 (C. 6)

Children And Young Persons

The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2012

Made

26th January 2012

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

30th January 2012

Coming into force

13th February 2012

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 206(2) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2012 and comes into force on 13th February 2012.

Appointed day

2.  13th February 2012 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 32 (the Safeguarders Panel) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011.

AILEEN CAMPBELL

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

26th January 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 13th February 2012 section 32 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the Act”). The commencement of this provision is to allow for the establishment of the Safeguarders Panel by the Scottish Ministers.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Act received Royal Assent on 6th January 2011 and Part 20 (other than section 203) came into force on that day. The provisions of the Act commenced by earlier commencement orders are detailed in the table below.

Provision	Date of commencement	S.S.I. No.
Section 1 and schedule 1, paragraph 8(7)	19th January 2011	2011/8
Sections 2, 3 (partially), 10, 11, 12, 13 and schedule 1, paragraphs 1 to 7, 8(1) to (6) and (8) to (10), 9, 11, 15(1) to (5), 16, 17(1) and 18 to 25	18th April 2011	2011/111
Section 191 (partially)	31st January 2012 and 26th March 2012	2012/1
Section 203(1) (partially) and schedule 5, paragraph 1(8)(a) and (b)	31st January 2012	2012/1

(1)

2011 asp 1.