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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-excepted-services-scotland-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/120",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Excepted Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-excepted-services-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Support services",
  "text": "There is excepted from the definition of a “support service” in section 2(2) of the Act any service which consists wholly of one or more of the following:–\n(a) a service which provides personal care or personal support to a person (“the recipient”) within the recipient’s home;\n(b) field social work;\n(c) counselling which is not provided in residential accommodation as part of a planned programme of care; or\n(d) a service which consists of the provision of assistance to a person to enable that person to prepare for, obtain or engage in any work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/571",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation of Care (Excepted Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/120/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:42:21.798906+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."
}