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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-risk-assessment-and-minimisation-accreditation-scheme-scotland-order-2006/article-5",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2006/0110699300",
  "legislation_title": "The Risk Assessment and Minimisation (Accreditation Scheme) (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-risk-assessment-and-minimisation-accreditation-scheme-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Decisions",
  "text": "(1) Where the Authority does not authorise the accreditation committee for the purposes of article 4(1), references to the accreditation committee in this article and in articles 6, 7, 8 and 15 shall be read as references to the Authority.\n(2) The accreditation committee shall decide, within 2 months of receipt of the application, whether to award accreditation, unless it considers that a longer period is required to determine a particular application in which case it will, within that 2 month period, notify the applicant of this fact and of the reasons.\n(3) The accreditation committee may request that the applicant (or, in the case of a legal person applying under article 3(1)(a), a nominee of the applicant) attend a meeting of the committee and any such request shall be sent no later than 4 weeks after receipt of the application.\n(4) The accreditation committee shall not consider an application made during a period of disqualification within the meaning of article 7(9).\n(5) A decision to award accreditation–\n(a) shall specify the period for which the accreditation will be valid (which period must begin on the date of the decision, or, where a decision is taken during an existing period of accreditation, on the expiry of that existing period, and in any case must last no longer than 3 years);\n(b) shall state that the accreditation is for all purposes or shall specify a particular purpose or purposes for which it is valid; and\n(c) may include such conditions as the accreditation committee considers appropriate, including conditions (in respect of the accreditation of persons) as to training or the continued membership of, or registration with, a professional regulatory body.\n(6) The Authority shall send the applicant written notification of the decision within 2 weeks of it being taken.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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