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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/180",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007;\n“the 2003 Act” means the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003;\n“child care position” has the meaning given by schedule 2 to the 2003 Act;\n“the list” means the list kept under section 1 of the 2003 Act;\n“the 2010 Regulations” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consideration for Listing) Regulations 2010;\n“the 2004 Regulations” means the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003 Determination Regulations 2004; and\n“the relevant date” means the day on which the 2003 Act is repealed by paragraph 42 of schedule 4 to the 2007 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2010/183."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2004/523."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/180/article/2",
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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."
}