Example sentences of "before a children ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Where a child appears before a children 's hearing and the hearing decide not to impose a supervision requirement , the rehabilitation period is six months .
2 It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ .
3 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
4 In both these cases , should the child appear before a children 's hearing again , then , reading section 4 as it stands , no questions can be asked and no answers received on the earlier offence or the previous hearing or any review hearings or the disposal .
5 If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining .
6 ‘ … ( e ) in any proceedings before a children 's hearing under the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 or on appeal from any such hearing ; … ’
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