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<Text>A council officer, and any person accompanying the officer, may interview, in private, any adult found in a place being visited under section 7.</Text>
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<Text>An adult interviewed under this section is not required to answer any question (and the adult must be informed of that fact before the interview starts).</Text>
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<Text>The power given by subsection (1) applies regardless of whether the sheriff has granted an assessment order authorising the council officer to take the person to another place to allow an interview to be conducted.</Text>
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