{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012-commencement-no-3-order-2012/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2234",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012-commencement-no-3-order-2012",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Secretary of State may provide to DBS any information she holds in order to enable DBS to determine whether, in relation to any person, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 or 11 of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Act applies or appears to apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 12 substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 13(1)(3)(ee) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at made date"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2234/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:20:40.493383+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."
}