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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regulation-of-care-child-contact-services-scotland-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063729",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Child Contact Services) (Scotland) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regulation-of-care-child-contact-services-scotland-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modification of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "text": "(1) The Act is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 47(1) (care services), at the end, insert—\n“(n) a child contact service.”.\n(3) In section 74 (conditions as to numbers)—\n(a) in paragraph (d), at the end, omit “and”, and\n(b) after paragraph (e), insert—\n“, and\n(f) in the case of a child contact service, limit the number of persons in respect of whom the service may facilitate contact.”.\n(4) In section 105(1) (interpretation of Part 5 of the Act), after the definition of “child care agency”, insert—\n““child contact service” has the meaning given by paragraph 19A of that schedule;”.\n(5) In schedule 12 (care services: definitions), after paragraph 19, insert—\n“19A. A “child contact service” is a service which has as its sole or main purpose the facilitation of contact between a child and a person with whom the child is not, or will not be, living (including the handover of the child to that person); but the expression does not include a social work service.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111063729/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:24.763191+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."
}