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Report Stage Proceedings: 8th October 2008
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Children and Young Persons Bill–[ [], continued

(b)
the administration and procedures of a panel;

(c)
the appointment of members of a panel (including the

number, or any limit on the number, of members who may

be appointed and any conditions for appointment);

(d)
the payment of fees to members of a panel;

(e)
the duties of any person in connection with a review

conducted under the regulations;

(f)
the monitoring of any such reviews.

      (4)
Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (3)(e) may impose a

duty to pay to the appropriate national authority such sum as that

national authority may determine; but such a duty may not be

imposed upon a person who has applied for a review of a qualifying

determination.

      (5)
The appropriate national authority must secure that, taking one

financial year with another, the aggregate of the sums which

become payable to it under regulations made by virtue of sub-

paragraph (4) does not exceed the cost to it of performing its

independent review functions.

      (6)
The appropriate national authority may make an arrangement with

an organisation under which independent review functions are

performed by the organisation on the national authority’s behalf.

      (7)
If the appropriate national authority makes such an arrangement

with an organisation, the organisation is to perform its functions

under the arrangement in accordance with any general or special

directions given by that national authority.

      (8)
The arrangement may include provision for payments to be made to

the organisation by the appropriate national authority.

      (9)
Payments made by the appropriate national authority in accordance

with such provision shall be taken into account in determining (for

the purpose of sub-paragraph (5)) the cost to that national authority

of performing its independent review functions.

    (10)
Where the Welsh Ministers are the appropriate national authority,

sub-paragraphs (6) and (8) also apply as if references to an

organisation included references to the Secretary of State.

    (11)
In this paragraph—

  “financial year” means a period of twelve months ending with 31st

March;

  “independent review function” means a function conferred or

imposed on a national authority by regulations made by virtue of

sub-paragraph (1)(b);

  “organisation” includes a public body and a private or voluntary

organisation.

12B
Regulations under section 23(2)(a) may, in particular, also make

provision as to the circumstances in which local authorities may

make arrangements for duties imposed on them by the regulations

to be discharged on their behalf.”’.

Report Stage Proceedings: 8th October 2008
746

Children and Young Persons Bill–[ [], continued

John Austin

Not called  15

Title,  line  7,  after ‘adoption;’, insert ‘to make provision about the power of parents to use

force;’.

Mr Kevin Barron

Julie Morgan

John Bercow

Annette Brooke

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

Dr Richard Taylor

Natascha Engel

Mr Martin Caton

Not called  16

Title,  line  7,  after ‘adoption;’, insert ‘to abolish corporal punishment of children;’.

Tim Loughton

Miss Julie Kirkbride

Mr Edward Timpson

Mr Andrew Turner

Angela Watkinson

Not selected  17

Title,  line  7,  after ‘adoption;’, insert ‘to make provision for the establishment of a chief

social worker;’.

Bill, as amended, read the third time, and passed.