The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010

Supervisory authorities: duty to provide information to the Scottish Ministers on request

10.—(1) This article applies if the Scottish Ministers are considering—

(a) whether to include any person in a list kept under section 1(1) of the 2007 Act;

(b) whether to remove any person from such a list.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may require a supervisory authority within the meaning of section 45(7)(1) of the 2006 Act to provide them with any information prescribed for the purposes of section 46(2) of that Act which the supervisory authority holds relating to the person.

(3) The supervisory authority must comply with a requirement under paragraph (2).

(1)

Section 45(7) has been amended by paragraph 91 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14), by paragraph 30(b) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order (S.I. 2009/2610) and by article 2 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Supervisory Authorities and Devolution Alignment) Order (S.I. 2010/1073).

(2)

There are amendments to section 46 of the 2007 Act, but they are not relevant to this Order.