{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-70.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "section/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Information for purposes of making barring decisions",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 19 of Schedule 3 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (information required by ISA about persons to whom grounds for barring apply)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a) after “applies” insert “ or appears to apply ”,\n(ii) in paragraph (b) for “apply” substitute “ applies or appears to apply ”, and\n(iii) omit paragraph (d),\n(b) in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) for “thinks might” substitute “ reasonably believes to ”, and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (6)—\n(i) omit the words from “which” to “it is”, and\n(ii) omit “or paragraph 20(2)”.\n(2) In paragraph 20 of that Schedule to that Act (provision of information by Secretary of State to ISA) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) Where the Secretary of State is under a duty under paragraph 1, 2, 7 or 8 to refer a matter to ISA, the Secretary of State must provide to ISA any prescribed details of relevant matter (within the meaning of section 113A of the Police Act 1997) of a prescribed description which has been made available to the Secretary of State for the purposes of Part 5 of that Act.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 70(1) extended (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": "C2",
      "text": "S. 70(1) extended (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": "C3",
      "text": "S. 70(1) extended (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": "S. 70 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) by S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/section/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:55.374488+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."
}