SCHEDULE 1Children’s Hearings Scotland
13Transfer of members from CPACs
1
This paragraph applies where the National Convener establishes an area support team under paragraph 12(1).
2
The National Convener must notify each relevant CPAC member of the National Convener’s intention to transfer the member to the area support team.
3
A notice under sub-paragraph (2) must state that the relevant CPAC member will become a member of the area support team unless the member notifies the National Convener within 28 days of receiving the notice that the person does not wish to become a member of the area support team.
4
A relevant CPAC member is a person who—
a
at the time of the establishment of the area support team, is a member of a Children’s Panel Advisory Committee whose area falls wholly within the area of the area support team, and
b
was nominated as such by the Scottish Ministers (or, as the case may be, by the Secretary of State) under paragraph 3 or 4(a) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.
5
The National Convener must appoint each relevant CPAC member as a member of the area support team unless the member notifies the National Convener in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).
6
On appointment as a member of the area support team under sub-paragraph (5), a relevant CPAC member ceases to be a member of the Children’s Panel Advisory Committee.
7
In this paragraph—
“area”, in relation to a Children’s Panel Advisory Committee, means the area of the local authority (or authorities) which formed the Children’s Panel Advisory Committee,
“Children’s Panel Advisory Committee” includes a joint advisory committee within the meaning of paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.