{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2012/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2012/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2113",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2012",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2012 and, subject to paragraph (2), comes into force on 10th September 2012.\n(2) Articles 4 to 9 of this Order come into force on 10th September 2012 immediately after the commencement of section 66 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.\n(3) In this Order “the Act” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.\n(4) This Order extends to England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 10.9.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2113/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:06.704156+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."
}