Part 2 SVetting and disclosure

Vetting informationS

51Correction of inaccurate scheme recordS

(1)Ministers must correct a scheme record if they are satisfied (following a request by a scheme member for correction, notification under section 50 or otherwise) that any information included in it is inaccurate.

(2)After correcting an inaccurate scheme record, Ministers must disclose the corrected information to—

(a)the scheme member, and

(b)any organisation for which they know the scheme member is doing regulated work.

(3)Subsection (2) applies only if Ministers have previously disclosed the inaccurate information under this Part to the scheme member or, as the case may be, the organisation.

(4)[F1Subject to subsection (4A),] a scheme member may, in particular, request a review of any information included in a scheme record by virtue of section 49(1)(c).

[F2(4A)But a scheme member may not request a review of information included in a scheme record by virtue of section 49(1)(c) which was or could have been the subject of an appeal under section 20 of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019.]

[F3(5)Ministers, on receiving [F4a request mentioned in subsection (4)], must ask the chief officer of the relevant police force who provided that information to reconsider whether—

(a)the chief officer still reasonably believes that information to be relevant in relation to the type of regulated work in relation to which the scheme member participates in the Scheme, and

(b)in the chief officer’s opinion, that information still ought to be included in the scheme member’s scheme record.]

(6)Information which was considered accurate when included in a scheme record but which—

(a)is subsequently found to have always been inaccurate, or

(b)subsequently becomes inaccurate for any reason,

is to be regarded as being inaccurate information for the purposes of this section.

[F5(7)This section does not apply to vetting information included in a scheme record which could be the subject of an application under section 52A(2).]