{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-44",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/10",
  "legislation_title": "Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Committee procedure",
  "text": "(1) It is for an Adult Protection Committee to regulate its own procedures.\n(2) But those procedures must allow committee meetings to be attended by—\n(a) a representative of—\n(i) the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland,\n(ii) the Public Guardian,\n(iii) SCSWIS (where it has not nominated a representative to be a member of the Committee), and\n(b) any other person as the Scottish Ministers may by order specify.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 44(2) substituted (7.1.2026) by Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 9), ss. 24(3), 39(2); S.S.I. 2025/388, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 29.10.2008 by S.S.I. 2008/314, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/10/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:56.603628+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."
}