{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/14",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Determination of application for removal from list",
  "text": "(1) Ministers must determine a competent application for removal from the children's list—\n(a) where they are satisfied that the applicant is no longer unsuitable to carry out regulated roles with children, by removing the individual from the list, or\n(b) where they are not so satisfied, by refusing the application.\n(2) Ministers must determine a competent application for removal from the adults' list—\n(a) where they are satisfied that the applicant is no longer unsuitable to carry out regulated roles with adults, by removing the individual from the list, or\n(b) where they are not so satisfied, by refusing the application.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(18)(a) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(18)(b) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 26(3) repealed (10.12.2021) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), ss. 85(2), 97 (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2021/380, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 28.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:53.317203+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."
}