The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010

Savings and transitional provision in relation to court referrals under section 10 of the 2003 Act

This section has no associated Executive Note

9.  Where prior to the relevant date, an individual has been convicted of an offence to which section 10 of the 2003 Act applies, that section, with the exception of subsection (10), continues to apply in relation to the conviction of that individual for that offence as if section 10 had not been repealed by paragraph 42 of schedule 4 to the 2007 Act, and is to be read as if it had been modified as follows—

(a)in subsection (7), for “the list kept under section 1(1)” there was substituted “the children’s list kept under section 1(1) of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 14)”; and

(b)in subsection (8)—

(i)for “the list” there was substituted “the children’s list”;

(ii)in paragraph (b) for “working in a child care position” there was substituted “doing regulated work with children within the meaning of section 91(2) of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007”.