{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-60.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/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Grant or refusal of registration",
  "text": "(1) SCSWIS may grant or refuse registration of a care service under section 59.\n(2) A grant of registration may be subject to such conditions as SCSWIS thinks fit.\n(3) If SCSWIS is satisfied, in relation to an application, that the requirements of—\n(a) such regulations as are applicable under section 78 or 82B(1) to the care service, and\n(b) any other enactment which appears to SCSWIS to be relevant,\nwill be complied with in relation to that service, it must give notice under section 71(1), or as the case may be section 73(1); otherwise it must give notice under section 71(2).\n(4) On granting a registration, SCSWIS must issue a certificate of registration to the applicant.\n(5) The person for the time being providing the service must ensure that the certificate (or a copy of it) is, while the certificate is current, kept affixed in a conspicuous place in each of the premises in or from which that service is provided and, if different, the principal (or only) office of the service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(3)(a) inserted (1.4.2024) by Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 6), ss. 13(1)(a), 15(2); S.S.I. 2024/20, reg. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 60(4)(5) excluded (temp.) (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), 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 60 in force at 1.10.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 60 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/60",
    "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."
}