{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-trafficking-and-exploitation-duty-to-notify-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-trafficking-and-exploitation-duty-to-notify-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2026/60",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Duty to Notify) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-trafficking-and-exploitation-duty-to-notify-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specification of Scottish public authorities",
  "text": "The following Scottish public authorities are specified for the purposes of section 38(1) of the Act—\n(a) a Health Board constituted under section 2(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,\n(b) NHS 24,\n(c) the Scottish Ambulance Service Board,\n(d) a local authority,\n(e) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency,\n(f) the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service,\n(g) the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29. Section 2(1)(a) was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) schedule 7 paragraph 1, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) section 28(a), the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 7) schedule 1 paragraph 1(2)(a) and the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13) schedule 2 paragraph 2(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "NHS 24 is a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland constituted under the NHS (Scotland) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/137)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Scottish Ambulance Service Board is a Special Health Board for the whole of Scotland constituted under the Scottish Ambulance Service Board Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/686)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/60/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:31:35.150322+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."
}