{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-3.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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Reference following disciplinary action etc.",
  "text": "(1) An organisation must give Ministers any prescribed information which it holds in relation to an individual who is or has been carrying out a regulated role if—\n(a) it has, on the referral ground—\n(i) dismissed the individual, or\n(ii) transferred the individual to a position which does not involve that type of regulated role, or\n(b) it would or might have dismissed or so transferred the individual on the referral ground if the individual had not—\n(i) otherwise stopped carrying out the regulated role, or\n(ii) been working for the organisation for a fixed term.\n(2) An organisation must give Ministers any prescribed information which it holds in relation to an individual who has been carrying out a regulated role if—\n(a) the individual stops carrying out the regulated role in circumstances not falling within subsection (1),\n(b) the organisation subsequently becomes aware of information which it was unaware of when the individual stopped carrying out the regulated role, and\n(c) the organisation considers that, if—\n(i) it had been aware of that information at that time, and\n(ii) the individual had not stopped carrying out the regulated role,\nit would or might have dismissed the individual on the referral ground.\n(3) In subsections (1) and (2)—\n(a) an individual suspended from a regulated role is not to be treated as having stopped carrying out that role,\n(b) the duty to give Ministers information in relation to the temporary transfer of an individual to another position applies only if the organisation subsequently makes a final decision not to permit the individual to resume the type of regulated role from which the individual was transferred.\n(4) This section does not apply to personnel suppliers (see sections 4 and 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(a)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 3(1)(a)(ii) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(a)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1)(b)(i) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(a)(iii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(2) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(b)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(b)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(b)(iii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(2)(c)(ii) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(b)(iv) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(c)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 3(3)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(3)(c)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3(1)(2) in force at 18.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/133, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3(1)(2) in force at 28.2.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 3(3)(4) in force at 28.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/3",
    "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."
}