Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007

[F1 30A. Notification of health regulatory bodies etc. S

(1) Where section 30(2) applies, Ministers must notify any relevant health regulatory body whom they think it would be appropriate to notify of the fact—

(a) that the individual has been barred from doing regulated work with children or adults, or, as the case may be,

(b) that they are considering whether to list the individual.

(2) Where, after considering whether to list an individual, Ministers decide not to do so, they must give notice of that fact to any relevant health regulatory body to whom they gave notice under subsection (1)(b).

(3) A notice given under subsection (1) or (2) may include—

(a) such details as Ministers think appropriate—

(i) where the individual has been barred (by being listed or otherwise), about the circumstances in which the individual was barred,

(ii) where they have decided not to list an individual, about the circumstances in which the individual was considered for listing, and

(b) any other information about the individual which Ministers think appropriate.

(4) Where Ministers remove an individual from a list under section 29, they must give notice of that fact to any relevant health regulatory body whom they think it would be appropriate to notify of that fact (having regard to the period for which the individual has been listed).

(5) The following are “relevant health regulatory bodies”—

• the General Chiropractic Council

• the General Dental Council

• the General Medical Council

• the General Optical Council

• the General Osteopathic Council

• [F2 the Health and Care Professions Council]

• the Nursing and Midwifery Council

• the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland

• the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.]

[F3 (6) The reference in subsection (5) to the Health and Care Professions Council does not include a reference to that body in so far as it has functions relating to the social work profession in England or social care workers in England (each of those expressions having the same meaning as in section 60 of the Health Act 1999).]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 30A inserted (28.2.2011) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(7), Sch. 5 para. 12 (with arts. 9, 10) (see S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2)

F2 Words in s. 30A(5) substituted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 15 para. 56(f); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)

F3 S. 30A(6) inserted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 15 para. 58; S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)