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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/2001-07-19</dc:identifier><dc:title>Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001</dc:title><dc:description>An Act of the Scottish Parliament to establish the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Scottish Social Services Council; to make provision for the registration and regulation of care services and for the registration, regulation and training of social service workers; to enable local authorities to make grants in respect of activities relating to child care and family support and to make direct payments to children in respect of certain care services; to enable the Scottish Ministers to delegate a power to make certain grants and loans for social work; to make further provision as respects payments by local authorities towards maintenance of certain children residing with and being cared for by persons other than their parents; to enable local authorities to provide and maintain residential accommodation in which nursing is provided; to make further provision as respects persons who have been looked after by local authorities; to amend the definition of “place of safety" in the Children (Scotland) Act 1995; to make further provision as respects the appointment for children of curators ad litem, reporting officers and safeguarders; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:date>2001-07-13</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-01-08</dc:modified><dct:valid>2001-07-19</dct:valid>
					
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          <Strong>PART 2</Strong>
        </Number><Title> LOCAL AUTHORITY ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICES <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">ETC.</Abbreviation></Title><P1group RestrictEndDate="2011-04-01" RestrictStartDate="2002-04-01" Match="false"><Title> Offences under Part 2</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/2001-07-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2001/8/section/40" id="section-40"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><CommentaryRef Ref="c1230016"/>40</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/1/2001-07-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2001/8/section/40/1" id="section-40-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Sections 21(1) and (3) and 23 of this Act shall apply in relation to a care service registered under this Part as they apply in relation to such a service registered under Part 1 of this Act; and section 21(2) shall apply for the purposes of this Part as if the reference in that section to section 9(4) of this Act were a reference to section 9(4) as applied by section 34(3) of this Act.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/2/2001-07-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2001/8/section/40/2" id="section-40-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Section 22 of this Act shall apply to a person who makes—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/2/a/2001-07-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2001/8/section/40/2/a" id="section-40-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>an application for registration under this Part; or</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/40/2/b/2001-07-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2001/8/section/40/2/b" id="section-40-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>an application for variation or removal of a condition in force in relation to a registration under this Part,</Text></P3para></P3><Text>as it applies to a person who makes an application mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of that section.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c1230016" Type="I"><Para><Text>S. 40 wholly in force at 1.4.2002, see s. 81(2)-(4) and <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2002/162" id="c00196" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2002" Number="162">S.S.I. 2002/162</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00197" CitationRef="c00196" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2002/162/article/2/e" Operative="true" SectionRef="article-2-e">art. 2(e)</CitationSubRef> (subject to <CitationSubRef id="c00198" CitationRef="c00196" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2002/162/article/3" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2002/162/article/13" Type="group" StartSectionRef="article-3" EndSectionRef="article-13">arts. 3-13</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>