CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 19 Who can exercise parental responsibility for a child or young person?
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 19
Who can exercise parental responsibility for a child or young person?(1) A person's parental responsibility for a child or young person may be shared or suspended by a court order or by the taking of emergency action.
(2) If 2 or more people have parental responsibility for the child or young person, each of them may act alone in discharging the responsibility.
(3) However, if the chief executive is one of the people with parental responsibility, no-one else may discharge parental responsibility for the child or young person in a way that would be incompatible with the chief executive's discharge of his or her responsibility.