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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rules of Procedure in Children’s Hearings) Rules 2013 No. 194
26.—(1) Where the child or any relevant person wish to give to a children’s hearing to be held by virtue of section 69(2) (determination under section 66: referral to children’s hearing) or Parts 9 to 11 (children’s hearing; proceedings before sheriff; subsequent children’s hearings), or 13 (review of compulsory supervision order) of the Act any report or other document for the consideration of the children’s hearing the child or relevant person, as the case may be, must give a copy of the report or other document to the Reporter, so far as practicable, no later than 4 days before the intended date of the hearing.
(2) Wherever practicable the Reporter must give a copy of any report or other document given under paragraph (1) to the persons mentioned in paragraph (4) (except where that person gave the report or other document to the Reporter) no later than 3 days before the intended date of the hearing.
(3) Where the Reporter obtains any information (including any views of the child given orally to the Reporter) or document which is material to the children’s hearing and has not previously been given to the persons mentioned in paragraph (4) the Reporter must give that information or a copy of the document to those persons as soon as possible before the beginning of the children’s hearing.
(4) Those persons are—
(a)the child;
(b)each relevant person;
(c)any appointed safeguarder;
(d)the three members of the children’s hearing.
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