The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 2000/3374 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 699

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND AND WALES

FAMILY LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

5th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

7th March 2001

Coming into force

1st April 2001

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000(1), makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2.  In paragraph (7) of regulation 10 of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) Regulations 2000(2) for the word “chairman” there shall be substituted the words “member presiding”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Jane Kennedy

Parliamentary Secretary

Lord Chancellor’s Department

5th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a small amendment to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Membership, Committee and Procedure) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3374) which make provision for the membership, committees and procedure of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service. Paragraph 7 of regulation 10 provides that minutes should be taken of every meeting of the Service. The amendment makes it clear that the member presiding over the meeting of the Service following that in which the minutes were taken should sign the minutes.

The Service is established under section 11 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43). The principal functions of the Service are, in respect of family proceedings in which the welfare of children is or may be in question, to safeguard and promote the welfare of the children, to give advice in any court about any application, to make provision for the children to be represented and to provide information, advice and other support for the children and their families.

(1)

2000 c. 43.

(2)

S.I. 2000/3374.