{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fees-for-scheme-membership-and-disclosure-applications-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fees-for-scheme-membership-and-disclosure-applications-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Fees for Scheme Membership and Disclosure Applications (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fees-for-scheme-membership-and-disclosure-applications-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Waiver of fees for those working in a voluntary and unpaid capacity for a qualifying voluntary organisation",
  "text": "(1) The fees in regulation 2(1) and (3) are waived in respect of any application to join the Scheme under section 45(1)(a) of the PVG Act where the conditions in paragraph (3) of this regulation are met.\n(2) The reduced fee in regulation 3(3) is waived in respect of any application for a PVG Scheme Level 2 disclosure where the conditions in paragraph (3) of this regulation are met.\n(3) The conditions are that the application is—\n(a) accompanied by a statement from an accredited body that the application is in connection with a regulated role undertaken for a qualifying voluntary organisation,\n(b) made by an individual in relation to a regulated role in a voluntary and unpaid capacity for a qualifying voluntary organisation, and\n(c) made solely in respect of that role.\n(4) In this regulation, “qualifying voluntary organisation” means an organisation which is not—\n(a) a Scottish public authority, under the management of such a public authority, or a school,\n(b) conducted primarily for profit, and any profit generated is used to further the objectives of the organisation and not distributed to its members.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), “school” has the same meaning given in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 but does not include a school that solely provides early learning and childcare within the meaning of Part 6 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2014 asp 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/25/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:37:09.242672+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."
}