{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-regulated-activity-devolution-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2010/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-regulated-activity-devolution-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2010/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491270",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Devolution and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-regulated-activity-devolution-and-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Provision of information by the Independent Safeguarding Authority to the police: devolution alignment",
  "text": "After section 50A(2) of the Act (provision of information to the police) insert—\n“(3) In subsection (1), “a chief officer of police” includes—\n(a) the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and\n(b) the chief constable of a police force in Scotland.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 50A was inserted by the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), section 88."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491270/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:52.110033+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."
}