{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/47",
  "legislation_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Duty to provide information: offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he is required under section 35 or 36 or in pursuance of section 37 to provide information to DBS , and\n(b) he fails, without reasonable excuse, to provide the information.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in ss. 35-42 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), 3(b) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 11.2.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2007/3545, art. 4(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 20.1.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/39, art. 2(1)(e)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 12.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/2611, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/section/38",
    "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."
}