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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drugs-assessor-qualifications-and-experience-scotland-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/8",
  "legislation_title": "The Drugs Assessor (Qualifications and Experience) (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drugs-assessor-qualifications-and-experience-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nA drugs assessor is a person who will carry out a mandatory drugs assessment under section 85 of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006. These Regulations prescribe the qualifications and experience either of which a person must have in order to become a drugs assessor.\nA person who holds a National Vocational Qualification or a Scottish Vocational Qualification which includes training on carrying out drugs assessments will be suitably qualified to become a drugs assessor. Alternatively, a person who has at least a total of six months experience of carrying out drugs assessments will be suitably qualified to become a drugs assessor. That experience must have been obtained within the period of 5 years prior to the date of their application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/8/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:34.136560+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."
}