http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/45EProtection 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 245E1Ministers may by regulations—aprohibit an organisation from permitting an individual to carry out a regulated role,brequire an organisation to remove an individual from a regulated role,where the individual does not participate in the Scheme in relation to that type of regulated role.2Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular—aimpose prohibitions or requirements—iin relation to particular types of organisations,iiin relation to particular kinds of regulated roles,botherwise limit the purposes for which the prohibition or requirement is to apply (or the area in which it is to apply) in such manner as Ministers think appropriate.3An organisation which fails to comply with regulations made under subsection (1) commits an offence.4It is a defence for an organisation charged with an offence under subsection (3) to prove that it did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the individual does not participate in the Scheme in relation to that type of regulated role.Pt. 2 modified (28.2.2011) by The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2660), arts. 1, 21Pt. 2 modified (28.2.2011) by The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2660), arts. 1, 22Ss. 45C-45G inserted (30.9.2024 for specified purposes, 1.4.2025 for specified purposes, 1.7.2025 in so far as not already in force) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), ss. 73(2), 97 (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2024/242, reg. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2)(3), sch. (with regs. 11, 12)