Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

14Assistance in relation to children's services planningS

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(1)A person mentioned in subsection (2) must comply with any reasonable request made of them to provide a local authority and the relevant health board with information, advice or assistance for the purposes of exercising their functions under this Part.

(2)Those persons are—

(a)any of the other service providers or the Scottish Ministers (but only in so far as the information, advice or assistance relates to a children's service or a related service which it is a function of the person to provide),

(b)any of the persons mentioned in section 10(1)(b).

(3)Subsection (1) does not apply where the person considers that the provision of the information, advice or assistance concerned would—

(a)be incompatible with any duty of the person, or

(b)unduly prejudice the exercise of any function of the person.

Commencement Information

I1S. 14 in force at 7.10.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(1)(a)