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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007/section-85",
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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/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Annual report",
  "text": "(1) Ministers must, in respect of each reporting year, prepare a report on the performance of their vetting, barring and disclosure functions during that year.\n(2) Ministers must lay a copy of each such report before the Scottish Parliament as soon as practicable after the end of the reporting year to which it relates.\n(3) A reporting year is—\n(a) the period beginning with the day on which this section comes into force and ending on 31 March, and\n(b) each successive year ending on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 in force at 28.2.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/157, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/14/section/85",
    "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."
}