{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-work-inspections-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2006/0110710401",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Work Inspections (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-work-inspections-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Power to require information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an inspector may at any time require any social work service provider to provide to the inspector any documents, records (including personal records) or other items–\n(a) which relate to the provision of a social work service; and\n(b) which the inspector considers it necessary or expedient to have for the purposes of an inspection or investigation.\n(2) A requirement to provide relevant medical records under paragraph (1) can only be made by an inspector who is a medically qualified inspector.\n(3) The power in paragraph (1) to require the provision of records includes, in relation to records kept by means of a computer, power to require the provision of the records in legible form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2006/0110710401/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:19.145317+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."
}