The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2013

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 190 (C. 13)

Children And Young Persons

The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2013

Made

30th May 2013

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

31st May 2013

Coming into force

12th June 2013

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, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2013 and comes into force on 12th June 2013.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011; and

“the 1995 Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995(2).

Appointed day

2.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into force of section 203(1) of the Act (consequential amendments and repeals) for the purpose of giving effect to the amendments to the 1995 Act which are made by paragraph 2(8) of schedule 5 to the Act is 12th June 2013 but only for the purpose specified in paragraph 2.

(2) The purpose specified is to enable the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under section 75 of the 1995 Act but only where such regulations will come into force on or after the date on which section 152 of the Act comes into force.

AILEEN CAMPBELL

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th May 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 12th June 2013 section 203(1) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the Act”) for the purpose of giving effect to paragraph 2(8) of schedule 5 to the Act. Paragraph 2(8) amends section 75 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and is given effect for the purpose of enabling the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under that section where such regulations will come into force on or after the date on which section 152 of the Act comes into force.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 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
Section 32	13th February 2012	2012/23
Section 3 (partially), section 4 (partially), schedule 1, paragraphs 10(1), (3) and (6), 12(1) to (3) and (7), 13(1) to (4) and (7) and 14(2) and (6) to (8) and schedule 2, paragraphs 1(1) and 4	19th September 2012	2012/246
Paragraph 10(2)(a) of schedule 1	19th September 2012	2012/252
Section 3 (partially), section 4 (partially), section 6, schedule 1, paragraphs (2)(b), (4), 10(5) and (7) to (9), 12(4) to (6), 14(1) and (3) to (5) and 17(2) and schedule 2, paragraphs 1(2) to (6) and 3	31st March 2013	2013/98

(1)

2011 asp 1.

(2)

1995 c.36.