{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-order-1975/article-4ZA",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1023",
  "legislation_title": "The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-order-1975",
  "path": "article/4ZA",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4ZA",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Neither paragraph (b) of section 4(3) of, nor paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 2 to, the Act applies in relation to—\n(a) any office, employment or occupation specified in paragraph 1, 6, 16, 17, 18, 18A, 31, 32, 35 or 36 of Part II of that Schedule or paragraph 1 or 8 of Part III of that Schedule or any other work specified in paragraph 35 or 36 of Part II of that Schedule;\n(b) any action taken for the purpose of safeguarding national security.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (S.) (29.3.2003) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/231), arts. 1(1), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 4ZA inserted (29.5.2013) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1198), arts. 1(3), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 4ZA(a) inserted (4.8.2016) by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/824), arts. 1(2), 2(3)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1023/article/4ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:07:27.513200+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."
}