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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/qualifications-of-chief-social-work-officers-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/qualifications-of-chief-social-work-officers-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/515",
  "legislation_title": "The Qualifications of Chief Social Work Officers (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/qualifications-of-chief-social-work-officers-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1962 Act” means the Health Visiting and Social Work (Training) Act 1962;\n“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“the 1983 Act” means the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983;\n“the Council” means the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work constituted by section 1 of the 1962 Act and continued in being by section 10 of the 1983 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 1 was amended by section 11 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The 1962 Act was repealed by the 1983 Act, Schedule 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/515/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:46.347097+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."
}