The Act: Overview Children’s hearings Section 42: Members of children’s hearings
155.This section modifies the duty that section 6(3) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 imposes on the National Convener of Children’s Hearings Scotland to ensure that every children’s hearing includes both a male and female member. It qualifies the duty to allow for its not being practicable in every case for a hearing to have both a male and female member.