{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2660",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-vulnerable-groups-scotland-act-2007-consequential-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2006 Act” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;\n“the 2007 Act” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007;\n“Disclosure and Barring Service” and “DBS” mean the body established by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012;\n“the 2007 Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007; and\n“police force” means—\n(a)a police force in England and Wales;\n(b)the Police Service of Northern Ireland;\n(c)the Royal Navy Police;\n(d)the Royal Military Police;\n(e)the Royal Air Force Police;\n(f)the Ministry of Defence Police;\n(fa) the tri-service serious crime unit;\n(g)the British Transport Police;\n(h)the Civil Nuclear Constabulary;\n(i) the National Crime Agency;\n(j)...\n(k)in article 3(1) also includes—\n(i)the States of Jersey Police Force;\n(ii)the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey;\n(iii)the Isle of Man Constabulary; and\n(iv)the Garda Síochána;\n“tri-service serious crime unit” means the unit described in section 375(1A) of the Armed Forces Act 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 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), 28 (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (5.12.2022) by The Armed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1051), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (7.10.2013) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2318), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 120(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (7.10.2013) by virtue of The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2318), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 120(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (5.12.2022) by The Armed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1051), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 28.2.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2660/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:17.400498+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."
}