SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 16 Children Act 1989

Part I Amendment of Act and Other Enactments Affected

The Children Act 1989 (c. 41)

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1

Section 42 of the Act of 1989 (right of guardian ad litem to have access to local authority records) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1)(a), after the word “authority" there shall be inserted “ or an authorised person" ”.

3

At the end of subsection (1) there shall be added—

; or

c

any records of, or held by, an authorised person which were compiled in connection with the activities of that person, so far as those records relate to that child.

4

The following subsection shall be added at the end—

4

In this section “authorised person” has the same meaning as in section 31.