{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-33",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/47",
  "legislation_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Cessation of registration",
  "text": "(1) In this section references to registration are to registration in the register maintained for the purposes of section 32.\n(2) Once a person is notified as mentioned in subsection (6) of that section, his registration ceases.\n(3) DBS may cancel a person's registration in such circumstances as are prescribed.\n(4) DBS must cancel a person's registration—\n(a) if the person applies for it to be cancelled;\n(b) in prescribed circumstances, if the person in relation to whom he is registered applies for it to be cancelled.\n(5) When a person's registration is cancelled under subsection (3) or (4)(b), DBS must notify him of that fact.\n(6) The requirement under subsection (5) is satisfied if notification is sent to any address recorded against A's name in the register.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 33(3) substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 48(c) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 33(4) substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 48(c) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 33(5) substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 48(c) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33(3)(4)(b) in force at 19.5.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/1320, art. 4(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/9",
      "affecting_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/9",
      "affecting_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/9",
      "affecting_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:33.775292+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."
}