{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-code-of-practice-measure-2021-commencement-and-transitional-provision-order-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding (Code of Practice) Measure 2021 (Commencement and Transitional Provision) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-code-of-practice-measure-2021-commencement-and-transitional-provision-order-2022",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints as 1st March 2022 the day on which sections 1 and 2 of the Safeguarding (Code of Practice) Measure 2021 come into force.\nThis Order also makes transitional provision to keep in operation any guidance made by the House of Bishops on matters relating to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults until that guidance is replaced by a code of practice under the new section 5A of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016. A failure to have due regard to any such guidance which continues in operation continues to be misconduct for the purposes of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/118/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:17.933101+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."
}