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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-joint-inspections-scotland-regulations-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2006/0110703030",
  "legislation_title": "The Joint Inspections (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-joint-inspections-scotland-regulations-2006",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision under section 3 of the Joint Inspection of Children’s Services and Inspection of Social Work Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 3) (“the Act”) with regard to the conduct of joint inspections.\nRegulation 3 provides for the sharing of information as between authorised persons for the purposes of joint inspections.\nRegulation 4 provides for the disclosure of information by the persons or bodies who may conduct joint inspections and provides, where practical, for the anonymisation of that information.\nRegulation 5 provides for the exercise of a power of entry by authorised persons for the purposes of a joint inspection.\nRegulation 6 provides for an authorised person exercising the power of entry in terms of regulation 5 to inspect, copy and remove documents or records, to have access to computers and to require facilities and assistance to enable the exercise of the power under regulation 5.\nRegulation 7 provides for an authorised person to require the production of documents and records.\nRegulation 8 provides for an authorised person to require explanations of documents and material inspected or provided in relation to joint inspections.\nRegulation 9 makes specific provision in relation to confidential health information obtained for the purposes of a joint inspection.\nRegulation 10 provides for the disposal or destruction of personal records following completion of a joint inspection.\nRegulation 11 provides that a person obstructing the exercise of a power or failing to comply with requirements made under regulations 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall be guilty of an offence. Section 3(1)(f) of the Act provides for the creation of offences punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument, as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "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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