http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/16Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007An Act of the Scottish Parliament to bar certain individuals from working with children or certain adults; to require the Scottish Ministers to keep lists of those individuals; to make further provision in relation to those lists; to establish a scheme under which information about individuals working or seeking to work with children or certain adults is collated and disclosed; to amend Part 5 of the Police Act 1997; to amend the meaning of school care accommodation service in the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-04-28Expert Participation2026-04-01 Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007s. 13A-13CDisclosure (Scotland) Act 2020s. 76(2)s. 96s. 97Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007sch. 2 para. 31(1)Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024sch. para. 25(2)(a)(i)s. 38(3) Part 116Ministers must list an individual in the adults' list if, after considering whether to do so, they are satisfied by information relating to the individual's conduct that the individual is unsuitable to carry out regulated roles with adults.Words in s. 16 substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(12) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch.S. 16 in force at 28.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)