The Disclosure Information (Accredited Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2025

Accredited bodies: refusal of registration and removal from the register of accredited bodies

3.—(1) Where—

(a) an applicant has been given the opportunity to make representations in accordance with section 47(8) of the Disclosure Act, or

(b) an accredited body has been notified in accordance with sections 48(3) or 50(5) of the Disclosure Act and given the opportunity to make representations,

the applicant or, as the case may be, accredited body must make any representations within 28 days of the date on which the opportunity to do so was given.

(2) The Scottish Ministers must consider any representations received under paragraph (1).

(3) Where the Scottish Ministers receive information that a relevant individual in relation to an accredited body has died or is incapable, by reason of physical or mental impairment, of acting in relation to a disclosure request, the Scottish Ministers may take such steps as are necessary to verify that information.

(4) In paragraph (3), a “relevant individual” in relation to an accredited body is—

(a) where the accredited body is an individual employing other persons in the course of a business, the individual,

(b) where the accredited body is a body corporate or unincorporated or is a statutory office-holder—

(i) the lead signatory of the accredited body,

(ii) any countersignatory of the accredited body.