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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-and-social-work-improvement-scotland-applications-order-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/29",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Applications) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-and-social-work-improvement-scotland-applications-order-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010;\n“address” means a postal address and, where available, an electronic mail address but an electronic mail address may not be substituted for a postal address;\n“the applicant” means the person making an application for registration of a care service under the Act;\n“provider” means the person providing the service;\n“SCSWIS” means Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The term “care service” is defined in section 47 of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/29/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:48.435656+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."
}