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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2660",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Duty to provide information to the Scottish Ministers on request",
  "text": "(1) This article applies if the Scottish Ministers are considering—\n(a) whether to include any person (“P”) in a list kept under section 1(1) of the 2007 Act;\n(b) whether to remove P from such a list.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may require—\n(a) any regulated activity provider (within the meaning of Article 10 of the 2007 Order) who has made arrangements for P to engage in regulated activity (whether or not the arrangements are still in place); or\n(b) any responsible person (within the meaning of Article 27 of the 2007 Order) who permits or has permitted P to engage in controlled activity,\nto provide them with any information prescribed for the purposes of Article 39(2)(a) and (b) of the 2007 Order which that person holds relating to P.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may require any personnel supplier (within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the 2007 Order) which is an employment agency or employment business and which acts for or has acted for P to provide them with any information prescribed for the purposes of Article 39(2)(c) of the 2007 Order which that person holds relating to P.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)—\n(a) an employment agency acts for P if it makes arrangements with P with a view to—\n(i) finding P relevant employment with an employer; or\n(ii) supplying P to employers for relevant employment by them;\n(b) relevant employment is employment which consists in or involves engaging in regulated or controlled activity; and\n(c) an employment business acts for P if it employs P to engage in regulated or controlled activity for and under the control of other persons.\n(5) The Scottish Ministers may require any personnel supplier (within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the 2007 Order) which is an educational institution and which has supplied P to another person for P to engage in regulated or controlled activity to provide them with any information prescribed for the purposes of Article 39(2)(d) of the 2007 Order which that person holds relating to P.\n(6) In this Article, “controlled activity” and “regulated activity” have the same meanings as in the 2007 Order and “employment” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 28.2.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Articles 25 and 26 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (N.I. 11) provide the meaning of controlled activity; Schedule 2 to that Order provides the meaning of regulated activity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/839 (N.I. 20)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2660/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:17.400498+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."
}