{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-minimum-frequency-of-inspections-order-2009/article-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/131",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Minimum Frequency of Inspections) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-minimum-frequency-of-inspections-order-2009",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "text": "In section 25(5) of the Act, in each of paragraphs (a) and (b) for “twelve months” substitute–\n“(i) if the service is day care of children provided for children aged 3 years or over only, is a child care agency or is a nurse agency, 24 months;\n(ii) if the service is child minding 24 months;\n(iii) if the service is a housing support service which is not provided in conjunction with any other form of care service, 36 months; and\n(iv) in the case of any other service, 12 months,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Day care of children” has the meaning given by section 2(20) of the Act; “Child care agency” has the meaning given by section 2(7) of the Act and “Nurse agency” has the meaning given by section 2(b) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Child minding” has the meaning given by section 2(17) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Housing support service” has the meaning given by section 2(27) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/131/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:12.321357+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."
}