SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 16 Children Act 1989
Part I Amendment of Act and Other Enactments Affected
The Children Act 1989 (c. 41)
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Section 42 of the Act of 1989 (right of guardian ad litem to have access to local authority records) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)(a), after the word “authority" there shall be inserted “
or an authorised person"
”
.
3
At the end of subsection (1) there shall be added—
; or
c
any records of, or held by, an authorised person which were compiled in connection with the activities of that person, so far as those records relate to that child.
4
The following subsection shall be added at the end—
4
In this section “authorised person” has the same meaning as in section 31.