{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/9",
  "legislation_title": "Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-reform-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Adult carer support plan",
  "text": "(1) The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 is modified as follows.\n(2) After section 6(5) (duty to prepare adult carer support plan) insert—\n“(5A) The Scottish Ministers must by regulations prescribe timescales for the preparation of adult carer support plans.”.\n(3) Section 7 is repealed.\n(4) In section 41(1) (interpretation), the definition of “terminally ill” is repealed.\n(5) In section 42(2) (regulations), paragraph (b) is repealed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 9(1)(2) in force at 7.1.2026 by S.S.I. 2025/388, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/9/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:56.680608+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."
}