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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provision of police information to the Scottish Ministers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of their functions under Parts 1 and 2 of the 2007 Act, the Scottish Ministers may ask the chief officer of a relevant police force to provide them with any information relating to an individual which the chief officer thinks might be relevant in relation to the type of regulated role (within the meaning of the 2007 Act) in relation to which a request under this paragraph is made.\n(2) Where the chief officer of a police force receives a request under paragraph (1), the chief officer must comply with it as soon as practicable.\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The chief officer of a police force must not provide information to Scottish Ministers under paragraph (1) if the chief officer considers that disclosing the information to the individual to whom it relates would be contrary to the interests of the prevention or detection of crime.\n(4) In paragraph (1), “relevant police force” means a body from which the Scottish Ministers would be required to request information under section 14A or 15 of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 if the person to whom the request under paragraph (1) relates applied for a Level 2 disclosure under section 8 of that Act.\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Scottish Ministers must pay to the appropriate body such fee as the Secretary of State (or the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the Police Service of Northern Ireland) thinks appropriate for information provided under paragraph (1).\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), the appropriate body means—\n(a) the police authority for a police force in England and Wales;\n(b) the Police Service of Northern Ireland;\n(c) the Provost Marshal for the Royal Navy Police, the Royal Military Police or the Royal Air Force Police;\n(ca) the Provost Marshal for Serious Crime;\n(d) the Ministry of Defence Police Committee for the Ministry of Defence Police;\n(e) the British Transport Police Authority for the British Transport Police;\n(f) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary;\n(g) the National Crime Agency;\n(h) the Home Affairs Committee for the States of Jersey Police Force;\n(i) the Home Department for the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey;\n(j) the Department of Home Affairs for the Isle of Man Constabulary; or\n(k) the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform of the Government of Ireland for the Garda Síochána.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 3(1) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/423), art. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(2A) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/423), art. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 3(2B) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/423), art. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 3(4) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/423), art. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 3(4A) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/423), art. 2(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 3(6)(ca) inserted (5.12.2022) by The Armed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1051), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 3(6)(g) substituted (7.10.2013) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2318), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 120(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 28.2.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 91 of the 2007 Act defines regulated work."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2660/article/3",
    "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."
}