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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-68",
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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/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Unlawful disclosure etc.: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in section 66 prevents disclosure of a confirmation of scheme membership made available under section 54—\n(a) by the scheme member to whom the confirmation of scheme membership relates,\n(b) by any other person with the consent of the scheme member to whom the confirmation of scheme membership relates,\n(c) to an office-holder in the Scottish Administration or a government department,\n(d) to a person appointed to any office by virtue of any enactment,\n(e) in accordance with any obligation to provide information imposed by virtue of any enactment,\n(f) for the purposes of answering a prescribed type of exempted question, or\n(g) for some other prescribed purpose.\n(2) Nothing in subsections (2), (4), (6) or (8) of section 66 makes lawful any disclosure of a confirmation of scheme membership made available under section 54 otherwise than for the purpose of enabling or assisting the person in relation to whom the confirmation of scheme membership was made available under section 54 to consider the suitability of the scheme member concerned to carry out, or to be offered or supplied for, the type of regulated role concerned.\n(3) Nothing in section 67 prevents use of a confirmation of scheme membership made available under section 54 for a purpose other than the permitted purpose—\n(a) by the scheme member to whom the confirmation of scheme membership relates,\n(b) by any other person with the consent of the scheme member to whom the confirmation of scheme membership relates,\n(c) by an office-holder in the Scottish Administration or a government department,\n(d) by a person appointed to any office by virtue of any enactment,\n(e) in accordance with any obligation to provide information imposed by virtue of any enactment,\n(f) in order to answer a prescribed type of exempted question, or\n(g) in any other prescribed circumstances.\n(4) In sections 66 and 67(2) and in this section, references to a confirmation of scheme membership include references to any information contained in a confirmation of scheme membership.\n(5) “Exempted question”, where used in subsections (1)(f) and (3)(f), means a question in relation to which section 4(2)(a) or (b) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c. 53) has been excluded by order made under section 4(4) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(1) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(b)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(b)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(b)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(2) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(c)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(2) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(c)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(2) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(a) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(3) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(d)(i) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(d)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(3)(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(d)(ii) (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 68(4) substituted (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 10(39)(e) (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. 68 in force at 28.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}