56.The Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland is an office established by the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003. Being a statutory office, the Commissioner can only do those things that statute empowers the Commissioner to do. Section 11 of the Act amends section 4 of the 2003 Act so that the following are included amongst the things that the Commissioner is empowered to do:
	bringing proceedings in a court or tribunal on the grounds that a public authority has acted, or proposes to act, unlawfully under section 6(1);
	intervening in court or tribunal proceedings in which someone else is levelling that charge against a public authority.
Overview of the Act Part 2: Duties on Public Authorities Section 11: Power for Commissioner to bring or intervene in proceedings