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Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007

The Act – an Overview

Part 1 .Protection of Adults at Risk of Harm

Removal orders

Section 16 – Right to move adult at risk

25.This section gives the council officer the right to enter any place to remove a person from that place in accordance with a removal order.

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