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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Local authorities: 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 in a list kept under section 1(1) of the 2007 Act;\n(b) whether to remove any person from such a list.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may require a local authority to provide them with any information prescribed for the purposes of section 40 of the 2006 Act which the local authority holds relating to the person.\n(3) The local authority must comply with a requirement under paragraph (2).\n(4) “Local authority” means a local authority in England and Wales as defined (in relation to England and Wales) in section 1 of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 28.2.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c.39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2660/article/8",
    "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."
}