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(1)A person may apply for a redress payment if the person or, in the case of an application for a next of kin payment, the person in respect of whom the application is made was abused while—
(a)a child, and
(b)resident in a relevant care setting in Scotland.
(2)The abuse must have occurred before 1 December 2004.
(3)In this Act, “child” means a person under the age of 18 years.
(4)But subsection (3) does not apply, in relation to an application for a next of kin payment, to a reference to a child of a deceased person.
(5)This section is subject to section 23.
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