The Emergency Child Protection Measures (Scotland) Regulations 1996

Duties where authorisation granted by justice of the peace to protect child

8.  Where an authorisation has been granted under section 61 of the Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after steps have been taken to prevent any person from removing the child from a place where he is then being accommodated, or the child has been removed to a place of safety, the applicant shall, subject to regulation 10 below, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to inform the following persons of the matters specified in regulation 9 below–

(a) any relevant person in relation to the child;

(b) any person, other than a relevant person, with whom the child was residing immediately before the grant of the authorisation;

(c) where not the applicant, the local authority for the area in which the place of safety to which the child was or is to be removed is situated;

(d) where not falling within paragraph (c) above and where not the applicant, the local authority for the area in which the child is ordinarily resident;

(e) where not the applicant, the local authority for the area in which the child was residing immediately before the grant of the authorisation (where they are not the authority under (c) or (d) of this regulation); and

(f) the Principal Reporter.