Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland, provide for:

(a)the information to be included in the register maintained by the Scottish Ministers under section 120 of the Police Act 1997 (registered persons) (regulation 3);

(b)the removal, subject to prescribed safeguards, of persons from that register (regulation 4); and

(c)the payment of a fee of £150 for inclusion in that register and £10 for each additional signature recorded in the register for the purposes of counter-signing applications for criminal record and enhanced criminal record certificates (regulation 5).