# Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, Paragraph 19

Extent: E+W

(1) DBS may require—
(a) any person who holds records of convictions or cautions for the use of police forces generally to provide to it any relevant information relating to a person to whom any of paragraphs 1 to 5 or 7 to 11 applies or appears to apply;
(b) any person who holds such records to provide to it prescribed details of relevant matter (within the meaning of section 113A of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50)) relating to a person to whom any of those paragraphs applies or appears to apply;
(c) the relevant chief officer to provide to it any such relevant information;
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a), relevant information relating to a person is information which the person holding the records reasonably believes to be relevant in relation to the regulated activity concerned.
(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c), relevant information relating to a person is information which the relevant chief officer reasonably believes to be relevant in relation to the regulated activity concerned.
(4) DBS must pay to the appropriate local policing body such fee as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate for information provided to IBB in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(c).
(5) For the purpose of deciding under this Schedule whether or not a person is included in a barred list DBS must not take account of relevant police information if the relevant chief officer thinks that it would not be in the interests of the prevention or detection of crime to disclose the information to the person.
(6) In sub-paragraph (5) relevant police information is information ... obtained by DBS in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1)(c) ....
(7) In this paragraph—
“caution” has the same meaning as in section 126 of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50);
“ the relevant chief officer ” means any chief officer of a police force who is identified by DBS for the purposes of this paragraph;
(7A) Subsections (10) and (11) of section 113B of the Police Act 1997 apply for the purposes of the definition of “the relevant chief officer” as they apply for the purposes of that section.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/schedule/3/paragraph/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-19
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