SCHEDULE 4Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

11Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 56)

In section 15, after subsection (2) insert—

2A

A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(c) above in relation to a contravention of section 7(3) if the person proves that he did not know, and had no reasonable ground for believing, that any other person living in the premises in which the person lives was a barred person.