{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/8",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Care services",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, a “care service” is any of the following—\n(a) a support service,\n(b) a care home service,\n(c) a school care accommodation service,\n(d) a nurse agency,\n(e) a child care agency,\n(f) a secure accommodation service,\n(g) an offender accommodation service,\n(h) an adoption service,\n(i) a fostering service,\n(j) an adult placement service,\n(k) child minding,\n(l) day care of children,\n(m) a housing support service,\n(n) a child contact service.\n(2) Schedule 12 (which provides definitions for the purposes of subsection (1)) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 47(1)(n) inserted (19.11.2025 and 20.11.2025 for specified purposes) by The Regulation of Care (Child Contact Services) (Scotland) Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/356), arts. 1(2)(3), 2(2) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 in force at 1.10.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 47 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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/8/section/47",
    "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."
}