s 12 Power of court to provide for supervision of child.
(1) If it appears to the court as respects any child for whose custody it has power to make provision in connection with an action for divorce, nullity of marriage or separation that there are exceptional circumstances making it desirable that the child should be under the supervision of an independent person, the court may, as respects any period during which the child is committed to the custody of any person, make an order placing the child under the supervision . . . of a local authority. (2) Where the court makes an order under this section for supervision by a local authority that authority shall be a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 selected by the court and specified in the order. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) The court shall not have power to make an order under this section as respects a child who in pursuance of an order under section ten of this Act is in the care of a local authority.