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  "title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2009",
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  "long_title": "This Order sets out a number of provisions made under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (“the Act”).Article 2 provides that a person who has one or more of the learning difficulties specified in paragraph (2), and who has no other form of disability, who receives a service or participates in an activity that is provided specifically for adults with the specified learning difficulties, will not be treated as a vulnerable adult for the purposes of section 59(1)(h) of the Act.",
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