{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-placement-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-30",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Adult Placement Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-placement-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Employment of staff",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall—\n(a) ensure that all permanent appointments of persons to its staff are subject to the satisfactory completion of a period of probation;\n(b) operate a disciplinary procedure which, in particular—\n(i) provides for suspension, and the taking of other action short of suspension, in relation to a member of staff where appropriate in the interests of service users and the proper operation of the agency; and\n(ii) provides that a failure on the part of a member of staff to report an incident of abuse, or suspected abuse, of a service user placed by the agency to an appropriate person is a ground on which disciplinary proceedings may be instituted.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)(ii), an appropriate person is the registered person, a police officer or an employee of the Regulation and Improvement Authority.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 in operation at 30.4.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/221/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:04.633325+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}