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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-medical-services-victims-of-sexual-offences-scotland-act-2021/section-10",
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  "legislation": "asp/2021/3",
  "legislation_title": "Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021",
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  "path": "section/10",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Trauma-informed care",
  "text": "(1) The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 is amended as follows (see also paragraph 4 of the schedule).\n(2) In the schedule (health care principles), after paragraph 7, insert—\n“\n7A (1) Regard is to be had to the importance of providing health care in a way that seeks to avoid re-traumatisation and is otherwise trauma-informed.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies only in relation to the exercise of functions conferred by section 1 of the 2021 Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.S.I. 2022/24, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/3/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:39.490644+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."
}