Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16 U.K. Children Act 1989

Part I U.K. Amendment of Act and Other Enactments Affected

The Children Act 1989 (c. 41) U.K.

18 (1) Section 42 of the Act of 1989 (right of guardian ad litem to have access to local authority records) shall be amended as follows. E+W

(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.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 16 para. 18 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I 1991/1883, art. 3, Sch.