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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-disclosure-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Disclosure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Disclosure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 4 of the principal Regulations (which was substituted by S.I. 2009/3334 and prescribes the fees payable on applications for criminal records disclosures) is amended to provide that where an application is made by a volunteer, no fee is payable. There are two exceptions to this. The first is where the applicant is volunteering directly for a statutory body. The second is where the cost of the application fee has been paid from public funds.\nRegulation 9A of the principal Regulations (which was inserted by S.I. 2009/2495) is substituted by new Regulations 9A and 9B which prescribe the cases in which suitability information relating to children and vulnerable adults respectively must be included in an enhanced criminal record certificate. The cases are prescribed by reference to the purposes prescribed in Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations. The purpose of the substituted provisions is to improve the clarity of the original provision. The prescribed cases have not been changed.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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