Part II Promotion of Children’s Welfare by Local Authorities and by Children’s Hearings etc.
Chapter 2 Children’s Hearings
Transfer etc. of cases
48 Transfer of case to another children’s hearing.
1
Where a children’s hearing are satisfied, in relation to a case which they are hearing, that it could be better considered by a children’s hearing constituted from a children’s panel for a different local government area, they may at any time during the course of the hearing request the Principal Reporter to arrange for such other children’s hearing to dispose of the case.
2
Where a case has been transferred in pursuance of subsection (1) above, the grounds of referral accepted or established for the case shall not require to be further accepted or established for the purposes of the children’s hearing to which the case has been transferred.