§ Mr. MillanI beg to move Amendment No. 193, in page 31, line 35, leave out 'further appeal against that decision' and insert:
'appeal against a decision to continue the supervision requirement, which was the subject of that appeal, made on a subsequent review'.The Amendment deals with the provision that the sheriff may order that no further appeal shall be made for a year. The Clause as it stands is ineffective. It refers to a decision which is appealable only on one occasion, and it is not therefore an effective sanction in the case of a frivolous appeal to say that it cannot be appealed again, because there is no possibility of appealing it again. We had in mind that where there was a subsequent review which continued the supervision it should not be appealed against for a year, and the new wording makes this clearer.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. MillanI beg to move Amendment No. 194, in page 32, line 1, after 'reporter', insert 'forthwith'.
We are dealing here with an application for the suspension of a supervision requirement against which an appeal is pending, and the purpose of the Amendment is to say that when a hearing is to be arranged in this interim period it should be arranged forthwith. Otherwise, the hearing might not be arranged until 1539 after the appeal had been heard, which would make the procedure completely nugatory from the point of view of protecting the interests of the child who is subject to the supervision requirement.
§ Amendment agreed to.