{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-65",
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  "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/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Falsification of confirmation of scheme membership",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person, with intent to deceive, to—\n(a) make a document which purports to be a confirmation of scheme membership made available under section 54,\n(b) alter such a confirmation,\n(c) use, or allow another person to use, such a confirmation in a way which suggests that it relates to an individual other than the scheme member in respect of whom it was made available.\n(2) It is an offence for a person to knowingly make a false or misleading declaration or other statement for the purposes of—\n(a) obtaining, or enabling another person to obtain, a confirmation of scheme membership under section 54, or\n(b) satisfying Ministers that an individual who is carrying out a regulated role is not doing so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(a)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(a)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1)(c) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(a)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1)(c) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(a)(iii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(b)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(b)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 65 title substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(36)(c) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 modified (28.2.2011) by The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2660), arts. 1, 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 2 modified (28.2.2011) by The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2660), arts. 1, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 65 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/65",
    "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."
}