# Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, Section 62: Improvement notices: care services


(1) SCSWIS may at any time give a notice (in this Part referred to as an “improvement notice”) to the person for the time being providing a care service registered under this Part that, unless within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice, there is a significant improvement, of such a nature as may be so specified, in the provision of that service, SCSWIS intends—
(a) in the case other than that mentioned in paragraph (b), to make a proposal under section 64 to cancel the registration, or
(b) in the case of a local authority providing an adoption service mentioned in paragraph 8(1)(a) of schedule 12, a fostering service mentioned in paragraph 9(a) or (c) of that schedule or any other care service registered under Chapter 4, to make a report to the Scottish Ministers under section 91.
(2) Where a notice under subsection (1)(a) is given to a person other than a local authority, SCSWIS must send without delay a copy of that notice to the local authority within whose area the service is provided.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/8/section/62 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/section-62
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