The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2025

Amendment of article 2

3.  In article 2(1) (interpretation)(1) of the 2013 Order—

(a) for “regulated work with adults” substitute “a regulated role with adults”,

(b) for “regulated work with children” substitute “a regulated role with children”,

(c) in the appropriate places insert, in alphabetical order, the following definitions—

““accredited body” has the meaning given in section 46(2) of the Disclosure Act,”,

““children’s hearing outcome” means anything treated as a conviction for the purposes of section 3 (special provision with respect to certain disposals by children’s hearings) of the Act(2),”,

““Disclosure Act” means the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020(3),”,

““Level 2 disclosure” has the meaning given in section 8 of the Disclosure Act,”,

““made available” means, in relation to a Level 2 disclosure, provided to the accredited body that countersigned the application in accordance with section 18(1)(a) of the Disclosure Act,”,

““school” has the meaning given in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(4),”,

““school care accommodation service” has the meaning given in paragraph 3 of schedule 12 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010(5),”.

(d) omit the definitions of the following expressions—

““the 1997 Act””,

““higher level disclosure””,

““protected conviction””,

““sent””.

(1)

Article 2 was relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2015/329.

(2)

1974 c. 53. Section 3 was amended by paragraph 23(2) of schedule 4 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36), section 4(3) of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 7) and paragraph 1(5) of schedule 2 of the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14).

(3)

2020 asp 13.

(4)

1980 c. 44.

(5)

2010 asp 8.