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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/73",
  "legislation_title": "The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Commencement No. 5, Saving and Transitional Provision) Amendment Regulations 2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Commencement No. 5, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (“the Principal Regulations”) and come into force on 31 March 2025.\nRegulation 2(2) inserts transitional provision relating to sections 77 and 86 and paragraph 10(46) of schedule 5 of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (“the Disclosure Act”), which are brought into force by the Principal Regulations on 1 April 2025. Sections 30(3A)(a), 30(3B), 46(2)(c) and 77 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 are modified for a transitional period so that references to other new provisions, inserted by sections 72 and 76 of the Disclosure Act, are omitted until such time as those sections are brought into force.\nRegulation 2(3) amends the table in the schedule of the Principal Regulations to set out which provisions in certain sections of the Disclosure Act come into force on 1 April 2025.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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