{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-information-accredited-bodies-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-information-accredited-bodies-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Disclosure Information (Accredited Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-information-accredited-bodies-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disclosure Information (Accredited Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 3 March 2025.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1997 Act” means the Police Act 1997,\n“applicant” means a person applying to be registered in the register of accredited bodies in accordance with section 47(1) of the Disclosure Act,\n“Disclosure Act” means the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020,\n“disclosure application” means an application for—\n(a) a Level 1 disclosure under section 2 of the Disclosure Act, or\n(b) a Level 2 disclosure under section 11 of the Disclosure Act,\n“Registration Regulations” means the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2010/383."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/5/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:37:24.261210+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."
}