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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/schedule-12/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/8",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A “child care agency” is a service which consists of or includes supplying, or introducing to persons who use the service, child carers; but the expression does not include a nurse agency and a service may be excepted from this definition by regulations.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), “child carer” means a person who—\n(a) whether or not for reward; and\n(b) whether on a day-to-day or on an occasional basis,\nlooks after a child wholly or mainly in the home of the child's parents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5 in force at 1.10.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5 in force at 1.4.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2011/122, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 12 para. 6",
      "affecting": "asp/2024/5",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/8/schedule/12/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:27.543776+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."
}