Part 1: Main Provisions Section 35: Power to reclassify certain disclosure requests: Scotland
This section allows the Scottish Ministers, where they receive certain types of disclosure requests under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, to treat them as if they were a disclosure request which simply confirms whether or not the individual is in the PVG Scheme and if they are barred. This allows Disclosure Scotland to process disclosure applications more quickly, either in the event of increased demand to deploy temporarily registered healthcare workers quickly, or as a result of staff shortages due to sickness absence.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Scotland only.