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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-access-to-lists-prescribed-individuals-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/744",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Children (Access to Lists) (Prescribed Individuals) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-access-to-lists-prescribed-individuals-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Protection of Children (Access to Lists) (Prescribed Individuals) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2537) so as to prescribe, as a description of individual for the purposes of section 103(2)(b) of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14), an individual whom a local authority must, under section 7(1A) of the Protection of Children Act 1999 (c. 14), check for inclusion in any of the lists mentioned in section 7(1) of that Act (regulation 2(3)). Before the commencement of section 8 of the Protection of Children Act 1999 (c. 14), a local authority is entitled, upon making an application to the Secretary of State, to information as to whether the individual is included in any of the lists.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/744/note",
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  "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."
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