The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Transfer of Children to Scotland – Effect of Orders made in England and Wales or Northern Ireland) Regulations 2013

Effect of supervision orders or education supervision orders made in Northern Ireland

6.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) a child is subject to a supervision order made under article 50(1)(b) of the 1995 Order, or an education supervision order made under article 55(1) of that Order;

(b) the authority designated under article 50(1)(b) of the 1995 Order, or the education and library board designated under article 55(1) of that Order, has notified the local authority for the area in which the child is to reside in Scotland (“the receiving local authority”) of the proposed transfer of the child to Scotland; and

(c) the receiving local authority has consented to the proposed transfer in writing.

(2) The supervision order, or education supervision order, has effect as if it were a compulsory supervision order.

(3) In this regulation—

“education and library board” means an education and library board established under article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

“authority”, in relation to Northern Ireland, has the meaning given in regulation 5(3).

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I.3), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.