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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111524190",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) The Independent Safeguarding Authority may, at the request of a person (X) who meets the requirement specified in paragraph (3), inform that person whether a person (Y) falls within paragraph (2).\n(2) Y falls within this paragraph if Y is —\n(a) included in the list kept under section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1999;\n(b) included in the list kept under section 81 of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n(c) subject to a direction under section 142 of the Education Act 2002; or\n(d) barred from regulated activity.\n(3) The requirement is that X satisfies the Independent Safeguarding Authority that X has a legitimate interest in knowing whether Y falls within paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 32."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}