Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe enactments for the purposes of section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999, which requires the Secretary of State to keep a list of persons considered unsuitable to work with children. The Act requires child care organisations to refer individuals to him for inclusion on that list, in certain circumstances, and prohibits them from offering employment in a child care position to any individual who is included in the list. An organisation is a “child care organisation” subject to those provisions only if its activities are regulated by or by virtue of an enactment prescribed by the Secretary of State. Regulation 2 prescribes enactments for those purposes.