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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-specified-scottish-authority-and-barred-lists-order-2019/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111187159",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Specified Scottish Authority and Barred Lists) Order 2019",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Relevant Scottish authority",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraphs 6(2) and 12(2) of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Act, the Scottish Ministers are specified as exercising for the purposes of the law of Scotland functions which correspond to those of DBS.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "DBS is defined in section 60(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and means the Disclosure and Barring Service established by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    }
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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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