3 Special provision with respect to certain disposals by children’s hearings F4under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Where a ground for the referral of a child’s case to a children’s hearing under the F1Children (Scotland) Act 1995 is that mentioned in section 52(2)
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This section does not apply where the acts or omissions constituting the ground mentioned in subsection (1) occurred when the child was under 12 years of age.
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of that Act (commission by the child of an offence) and that ground has either been accepted by the child and, where necessary, by his parent or been established F2(or deemed established) to the satisfaction of the sheriff under section 68 or 85 of that Act, the acceptance, establishment (or deemed establishment) of that ground shall be treated for the purposes of this Act (but not otherwise) as a conviction, and any disposal of the case thereafter by a children’s hearing shall be treated for those purposes as a sentence; and references in this Act to a person’s being charged with or prosecuted for an offence shall be construed accordingly.