The Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the provision of Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers Panels) Order 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/858
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the provision of Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers Panels) Order 1996.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(3) In this Order “the 1991 Regulations ” means the Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers (Panels) Regulations 1991 .

Section 2 Contracting out of functions in relation to the provision of panels of guardians ad litem and reporting officers

(1) Any function of a local authority which is conferred by the 1991 Regulations may be exercised by, or by employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by that local authority.

(2) Where any function of a local authority which is conferred by the 1991 Regulations is exercised by a person other than the authority in accordance with paragraph (1) of this article, Schedule 1 to the 1991 Regulations (complaints board) shall have effect in relation to that authority as if in paragraph (a) at the end there were inserted the words “nor a person who is authorised to exercise any function of the local authority which is conferred by these Regulations in accordance with article 2 of the Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the provision of Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers Panels) Order 1996, nor an employee of such person”.