NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions were commenced by The Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024 on 28 August 2024:

• section 1 (age of referral to children’s hearing), for the purpose of its application to the amendments to the 1995 Act made by sections 18 and 19 of the Act,

• section 12 (meaning of “child”), for the purpose of its application to the amendments to the 1995 Act made by sections 18 and 19 of the Act,

• section 18 (remand and committal of children before trial or sentence),

• section 19 (detention of children on conviction),

• section 21 (meanings of “young offenders institution” and “young offender”),

• section 22 (abolition of remand centres),

• section 23 (duty of local authority to provide residential establishments for detained children),

• section 24 (children detained in secure accommodation to be treated as “looked after” children),

• section 37 (modification of enactments), for the purpose of its application to the modification of the enactments in Parts 5, 6 and 7 of the schedule of the Act,

• in the schedule (minor and consequential modifications)—

  (i)

  Part 5 (criminal procedure: miscellaneous modifications),

  (ii)

  Part 6 (abolition of remand centres),

  (iii)

  Part 7 (local authority duties in relation to detained children).