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Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

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65Emergency cancellation of registration
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(1)SCSWIS may apply to the sheriff for an order cancelling the registration, under this Chapter, of a care service.

(2)The application may be granted if it appears to the sheriff that, unless the order is made, there will be a serious risk to the life, health or wellbeing of persons.

(3)The sheriff may make such interim order as the sheriff thinks fit.

(4)As soon as practicable after SCSWIS has applied for an order under subsection (1), it must notify the appropriate authorities.

(5)Where the order applied for is made (or an interim order is made), SCSWIS must as soon as reasonably practicable give a copy of it to the person who provides the care service.

(6)The sheriff may determine an application under this section in the absence of the person providing the care service to which the application relates.

(7)An order under this section has effect—

(a)from the time at which it is made, or

(b)from such other time as the sheriff considers appropriate.

(8)Within 14 days of the day on which an order under this section is made, an appeal may be made to the sheriff principal against the making of the order.

(9)On an appeal under subsection (8), the sheriff principal may—

(a)confirm the order,

(b)revoke the order,

(c)modify the order,

(d)make such other order as the sheriff principal thinks fit.

(10)The decision of the sheriff principal on an appeal under subsection (8) is final.

(11)An order under this section has effect notwithstanding the making of an appeal in relation to the order.

(12)For the purposes of this section, the appropriate authorities are—

(a)each—

(i)local authority, and

(ii)health board,

within whose area the care service is provided, and

(b)any other body established by or under an enactment whom SCSWIS thinks it appropriate to notify.

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