Commentary on Sections Part 1 – Children’s Services Section 3: Conduct of inspections
13.Subsection (1) provides for regulations to make provision as to the following:
14.Subsection (2) makes further provision regarding the use of confidential information which an authorised person participating in a joint inspection has obtained for the purposes of that inspection.  Such information can not be used or disclosed other than for the purposes of the inspection unless disclosure is required to comply with an enactment or court order, to protect the welfare of a child or to prevent or detect crime.
15.Subsection (3) provides as to who is an “authorised person” for the purpose of section 3 and therefore empowered to act in accordance with regulations made under subsection (1).  “Authorised person” means an individual responsible for conducting an inspection under section 1 of the Act or, where a body has been required to conduct the inspection, an individual authorised by that body.  It also includes an individual directed to participate in an inspection under section 2(1) of the Act or again where the direction was to a body, an individual authorised by that body.