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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/schedule-10/part-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/10/part/5",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Safeguarding of vulnerable groups",
  "text": "Short title\nExtent of repeal or revocation\nPolice Act 1997\nSection 113A(10).\nSection 113B(13).\nSection 113BA(2)(b) to (d).\nSection 113BB(2)(b) to (d).\nIn section 119—\n(a)in subsection (2), the words “or for the purposes of section 24 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006”, and\n(b)subsection (8)(c).\nSection 119B(5)(d) and (e).\nIn section 120A—\n(a)subsection (3A)(b) and (c),\n(b)subsections (3B) and (3C), and\n(c)in subsection (3D), the words from “, except” to the end of the subsection.\nSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006\nSection 4(1)(a).\nIn section 5(4)—\n(a)the words “section 10(3);”, and\n(b)the words “paragraph 4 of Schedule 6”.\nSection 6(8)(c).\nSection 7(5)(b) and (c).\nSection 8.\nSection 9(5)(b) and (c).\nSections 10 to 17.\nIn section 18(1) and (2)—\n(a)the words “, 10, 11, 23, 27”, and\n(b)the words “or Schedule 6”.\nIn section 19—\n(a)subsections (1), (3), (4), (6) and (7),\n(b)subsection (8)(b) and (c), and\n(c)subsection (9).\nSection 20(2) to (7).\nSections 21 to 27.\nIn section 35—\n(a)subsection (1)(b), and\n(b)subsection (6).\nIn section 36—\n(a)in subsection (1), the words “or controlled activity”, and\n(b)in subsection (3)(a), the words “or controlled”.\nIn section 37—\n(a)subsection (2)(b),\n(b)in subsection (2)(d), the words “or controlled”,\n(c)in subsections (4) and (5), the words “or controlled”.\nIn section 39—\n(a)in subsections (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”, and\n(b)in subsection (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”.\nIn section 41—\n(a)in subsections (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”, and\n(b)in subsection (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”.\nIn section 43(6)(a), the words “of entry 1 or 8”.\nSection 44.\nIn section 45—\n(a)in subsections (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”,\n(b)in subsection (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”, and\n(c)subsection (6).\nIn section 47—\n(a)subsection (2)(b) to (e),\n(b)subsection (3)(b) to (e), and\n(c)subsection (5).\nIn section 48(1)—\n(a)in paragraph (a), the word “newly”, and\n(b)paragraph (c) and the word “or” before it.\nIn section 49(1)—\n(a)in paragraph (a), the word “newly”, and\n(b)paragraph (c) and the word “or” before it.\nSection 51(5)(b).\nIn section 54—\n(a)subsection (2)(a),\n(b)in subsection (3), paragraph (b) (but not the word “or” at the end of it),\n(c)in subsection (4), paragraph (b) (but not the word “or” at the end of it), and\n(d)subsection (5).\nIn section 56—\n(a)subsection (1),\n(b)subsection (2)(c),\n(c)in subsection (2)(d) and (e), the words “or (8)”, and\n(d)subsection (3)(b) to (f), (j), (n), (s) and (t).\nIn section 57(1)(c), the word “prescribed”.\nSection 59.\nIn section 60—\n(a)in subsection (1), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “personnel supplier”, the words “or controlled”, and\n(b)subsection (3).\nIn section 61(3)—\n(a)paragraphs (b) to (e), and\n(b)paragraph (j) and the word “or” before it.\nIn Schedule 3—\n(a)paragraph 19(1)(d),\n(b)in paragraph 19(6) the words from “which” to “it is” and the words “or paragraph 20(2)”, and\n(c)paragraph 24(8) and (9).\nIn Schedule 4—\n(a)paragraph 1(8),\n(b)paragraph 1(9B)(a),\n(c)in paragraph 1(9B)(f), the words “18B or”,\n(d)in paragraph 1(9B)(m), the words “48 or”,\n(e)paragraph 1(9B)(p) to (t),\n(f)paragraph 1(10)(a), (ba), (d) and (e),\n(g)paragraph 1(12A),\n(h)paragraph 1(13A),\n(i)paragraph 2(1)(d) and (2)(d),\n(j)paragraph 3(1)(c),\n(k)paragraph 4 (including the italic cross-heading before it),\n(l)paragraph 7(4),\n(m)in paragraph 7(5), the words “or (4)”,\n(n)in paragraph 7(7)(f), the words “English local authority social services or”,\n(o)paragraph 7(8A),\n(p)paragraph 8, and\n(q)in paragraph 10(2), the words “or 7(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (g)” and, in paragraph (b), the words “or vulnerable adults (as the case may be)”.\nSchedules 5 and 6.\nIn Schedule 7—\n(a)in paragraph 1, entries 3, 4, 7, 8, 17 and 19 in the table,\n(b)in paragraph 3(1), paragraph (b) and the word “or” before it, and\n(c)paragraph 3(3).\nIn Schedule 8, paragraph 5 (including the italic cross-heading before it).\nIn Schedule 9, paragraph 14(7)(c).\nSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I. 11))\nIn Article 2—\n(a)in the first paragraph (2), the definition of “institution of further education” and, in sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of “personnel supplier”, the words “or controlled”, and\n(b)paragraph (3).\nArticle 3.\nArticle 8(1)(a).\nArticle 9(4)(c) and (e).\nArticle 10(8)(a) and (c).\nArticle 11(5)(b) and (c).\nArticle 12.\nArticle 13(5)(b) and (c).\nArticles 14 to 21.\nIn Article 22(1) and (2)—\n(a)the words “, 14, 15, 27, 31” and\n(b)the words “or Schedule 4”.\nArticle 23—\n(a)paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (6) and (7),\n(b)paragraph (8)(b) and (c), and\n(c)paragraph (9).\nArticle 24(2) to (7).\nArticles 25 to 27 (and the italic cross-heading before them).\nArticles 28 to 31 (and the italic cross-heading before them).\nIn Article 37—\n(a)paragraph (1)(b), and\n(b)paragraph (6).\nIn Article 38—\n(a)in paragraph (1), the words “or controlled activity”, and\n(b)in paragraph (3)(a), the words “or controlled”.\nIn Article 39—\n(a)paragraph (2)(b),\n(b)in paragraph (2)(d), the words “or controlled”, and\n(c)in paragraphs (4) and (5), the words “or controlled”.\nIn Article 41—\n(a)in paragraphs (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”, and\n(b)in paragraph (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”.\nIn Article 43—\n(a)in paragraphs (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”,\n(b)in paragraph (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”, and\n(c)paragraphs (4A) to (4C).\nArticle 46.\nIn Article 47—\n(a)in paragraphs (1) and (5), the word “prescribed”,\n(b)in paragraph (4)(a), the words “or controlled activity”, and\n(c)paragraph (6).\nIn Article 49—\n(a)paragraph (2)(b) to (e),\n(b)paragraph (3)(b) to (e), and\n(c)paragraph (5).\nIn Article 50(1)—\n(a)in sub-paragraph (a), the word “newly”, and\n(b)sub-paragraph (c) and the word “or” before it.\nIn Article 51(1)—\n(a)in sub-paragraph (a), the word “newly”, and\n(b)sub-paragraph (c) and the word “or” before it.\nArticle 53(5)(b).\nIn Article 56—\n(a)paragraph (2)(a),\n(b)in paragraph (3), sub-paragraph (b) (but not the word “or” at the end of it),\n(c)in paragraph (4), sub-paragraph (b) (but not the word “or” at the end of it), and\n(d)paragraph (5).\nIn Article 57(1)(c), the word “prescribed”.\nIn Schedule 1—\n(a)paragraph 19(1)(d),\n(b)in paragraph 19(6), the words from “which” to “it is” and the words “or paragraph 20(2)”, and\n(c)paragraph 24(8) and (9).\nIn Schedule 2—\n(a)paragraph 1(7),\n(b)paragraph 2(1)(d) and (2)(d),\n(c)paragraph 4,\n(d)paragraph 7(4),\n(e)in paragraph 7(5), the word “, (4)”,\n(f)paragraph 7(9),\n(g)paragraph 8, and\n(h)in paragraph 10(2), the words “or 7(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (g)” and, in paragraph (b), the words “or vulnerable adults (as the case may be)”.\nSchedules 3 and 4.\nIn Schedule 5—\n(a)in paragraph 1, entries 3, 4, 7, 8, 17 and 19 in the table,\n(b)in paragraph 3(1), paragraph (b) and the word “or” before it, and\n(c)paragraph 3(3).\nIn Schedule 6, paragraph 5 (including the italic cross-heading before it).\nHealth and Social Care Act 2008\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 92 and 93.\nEducation and Skills Act 2008\nSection 147(8).\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 41(3) and 89 (including the italic cross-heading before paragraph 89).\nThe Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912)\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 21.\nHealth Act 2009\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 14 and 15.\nApprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009\nIn Schedule 12, paragraph 43.\nPolicing and Crime Act 2009\nIn section 81(3)(m)—\n(a)in sub-paragraph (i), the words “, 6, 15, 25”,\n(b)sub-paragraph (v), and\n(c)sub-paragraph (vi) (but not the word “and” at the end of it).\nSections 82 to 87.\nSections 89, 90 and 92.\nIn Part 8 of Schedule 8, the entry relating to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.\nThe Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Electronic Communications) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/203)\nArticles 12 to 15.\nThe Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182)\nArticle 1(6)(e).\nIn Schedule 5, paragraph 9 (and the heading before it) and Part 3.\nThe Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2610)\nArticle 26.\nPart 8.\nArticles 28, 29 and 30(a).\nThe Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Regulated Activity, Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 304/2009)\nArticles 10, 24 and 25.\nThe Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 305/2009)\nArticle 7(4).\nThe Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813)\nArticle 19(3), (4) and (5).\nSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Controlled Activity and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1146).\nRegulation 4(2).\nRegulation 8.\nThe Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Devolution and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1154)\nArticle 3(5) and (6).\nArticle 5.\nArticle 7(4).\nArticles 8 and 11.\nThe Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158)\nIn Schedule 2, paragraph 62 (and the heading before it).\nSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Regulated Activity, Devolution Alignment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 30/2010)\nArticles 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.\nArticle 22(a) and the word “and” at the end of it.\nArticle 24.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1762), art. 4(5), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended (Jersey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Jersey) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2591), arts. 1(2)(3), 4(1)(5), Sch. 4 (with art. 5) (as amended (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 2025/827, arts. 1(1), 3 and (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 2025/825, arts. 1(1), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended (Isle of Man) (with modifications) (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2598), arts. 1(2), 4(4), Sch. 4 (as amended (10.7.2025) by S.I. 2025/824, arts. 1(1), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended in part (Guernsey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Guernsey) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/827), arts. 1(1), 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended in part (Jersey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Jersey) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/825), arts. 1(1), 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 extended in part (Isle of Man) (with modifications) (10.7.2025) by The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Isle of Man) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/824), arts. 1(1), 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 Pt. 5 in force at 10.9.2012 immediately after the coming into force of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2157) for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(bb)"
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