{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-29.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/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Removal from list",
  "text": "(1) Ministers—\n(a) must remove an individual from the children's list or adults' list—\n(i) if directed to do so by the court, or\n(ii) where section 26 or 28 requires them to do so, and\n(b) may, at any other time, remove an individual from the children's list or adults' list if.\n(i) they are satisfied that the individual should not have been listed, or\n(ii) they are otherwise satisfied that the individual is no longer unsuitable to carry out regulated roles with children or, as the case may be, regulated roles with adults.\n(2) Where Ministers appeal against a direction to remove an individual from the children's list or adults' list, the duty imposed by subsection (1)(a) does not apply until that appeal is finally determined.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1)(b)(i) in s. 29(1)(b) renumbered (10.12.2021) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), ss. 84(3)(a), 97 (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2021/380, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 29(1)(b)(ii) and word inserted (10.12.2021) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), ss. 84(3)(b), 97 (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2021/380, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 29 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/29",
    "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."
}