# Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, Section 18: Police information etc.


(1) Ministers may, for the purpose of enabling or assisting them to decide whether to list an individual, require the chief constable ... to provide them with any information relating to the individual which the chief constable ... thinks might be relevant in relation to the type of regulated role concerned.
(2) The chief constable must not provide information to Ministers under subsection (1) if the chief constable thinks that disclosing it to the individual to whom it relates would be contrary to the interests of the prevention or detection of crime.
(3) Ministers must pay the Scottish Police Authority such fee as Ministers think appropriate for information provided under subsection (1).
(4) Ministers may, for the purpose of enabling or assisting them to decide whether to list an individual, require—
(a) any person who holds records of convictions, cautions or other information for the use of police forces generally to provide them with any information relating to the individual which the record holder thinks might be relevant in relation to the type of regulated role concerned,
(b) any person who holds central records to provide them with the prescribed details of every relevant matter relating to the individual that is recorded in those records.
(5) In subsection (4)(b)—
“central records” has the meaning given in section 69 of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020,
“relevant matter” means—
(a)a conviction that is not a non-disclosable conviction within the meaning of section 9 of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020,
(aa) a conviction that is not a non-disclosable children’s hearing outcome within the meaning of section 10 of that Act,
(b)a caution within the meaning given in section 69 of that Act that is not spent by virtue of schedule 3 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and
(c)a prescribed civil court order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-18
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