{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/4",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 5 (powers of Scottish Ministers)—\n(a) in subsection (1B), after paragraph (p) insert—\n“(q) the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4).”,\n(b) in subsection (2)(c), for “and (p)” substitute “ , (p) and (q) ”, and\n(c) in subsection (5), for the words from “has” to the end of the subsection substitute “ means a person who is under the age of 18. ”.\n(3) In subsection (1)(b) of section 6A (inquiries), for “section 65 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978” substitute “ section 119(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4) ”.\n(4) In subsection (3A) of section 10 (assistance to voluntary organisations etc. for social work), after “adoption” insert “ support ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 28.9.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/4/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:02.274423+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}