Notification of Children’s Hearings and provision of documents to legal representative

4.—(1) The Principal Reporter shall make any document, information or copies of any document provided to the Chairman and members of the Children’s Hearing available to the legal representative.

(2) Subject to the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Rules 1996(1), where the Principal Reporter arranges any Children’s Hearing, he or she shall, wherever practicable–

(a) at least seven days before the date of the Hearing, notify the legal representative of the time and place of the Hearing; and

(b) at least three days before the date of the Hearing, give to the legal representative a copy of the documents which are relevant to the case of a child to be considered at the Hearing.

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S.I. 1996/3261.