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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81</dc:identifier><dc:title>Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007</dc:title><dc:description>An 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.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-04-28</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-04-01</dct:valid>
					
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          <Strong>Part 3</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Amendment of Part 5 of the Police Act 1997</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2011-02-28"><Title>Regulations about registration</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2007/14/section/81" id="section-81"><Pnumber PuncAfter="">81</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2007/14/section/81/1" id="section-81-1" RestrictStartDate="2011-02-28"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-2626e27381391e23b5d9fee8cc7cf2b8"/>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Section 120 of the 1997 Act is amended as follows—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2007/14/section/81/1/a" id="section-81-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>in subsection (2), for  “section 120A and regulations under subsection (3)” substitute <InlineAmendment>“
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or</Text></P4para></P4><P4><Pnumber>ii</Pnumber><P4para><Text>a person appointed to an office by virtue of an enactment, whether that body or person is registered or applying to be registered,</Text></P4para></P4><Text>of an individual to act for the body or, as the case may be, person in relation to disclosure applications;</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>e</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the refusal by the Scottish Ministers, on such grounds as may be specified in or determined under the regulations, to accept or to continue to accept any nomination made by virtue of this section;</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>f</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the refusal by the Scottish Ministers to include persons who, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, are likely to act in relation to fewer disclosure applications in any period of 12 months than a minimum number specified in the regulations;</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>g</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the removal from the register of persons who have, in any period of 12 months during which they were registered, acted in relation to fewer disclosure applications than the minimum number specified under paragraph (f);</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>h</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the removal from the register of persons who are, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, no longer likely to wish to act in relation to disclosure applications;</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>i</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the removal from the register of any person who has breached any condition of the person's registration; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>j</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the period which must elapse before any person refused registration or removed from the register may apply to be included in the register.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The provision which may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(c) includes provision—</Text><P3><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>for the registration or continued registration of any person to be subject to prescribed conditions or, if the regulations so provide, such conditions as the Scottish Ministers think fit; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>for the Scottish Ministers to vary or revoke those conditions.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In subsection (2), references to acting in relation to disclosure applications are to be read as references to—</Text><P3><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>countersigning applications under section 113A or 113B; or</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>making declarations in relation to requests for disclosures under section 52 or 53 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 14).</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></BlockAmendment><AppendText>.</AppendText></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2007/14/section/81/3" id="section-81-3" RestrictStartDate="2011-02-28"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-2626e27381391e23b5d9fee8cc7cf2b8"/>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Section 124A of the 1997 Act is amended as follows—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/81/3/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2007/14/section/81/3/a" id="section-81-3-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>in subsection (1), for  “section 120(3)(b)” substitute <InlineAmendment>“
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