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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-48",
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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/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Supervisory authorities: notification of barring &c. in respect of children",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if—\n(a) a person is ... included in the children's barred list,\n(b) DBS becomes aware that a person is subject to a relevant children's disqualification, ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) DBS must notify every interested supervisory authority of the circumstance mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) (as the case may be) of subsection (1).\n(3) A supervisory authority is an interested supervisory authority only if—\n(a) it has applied to DBS to be notified if any of the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) occurs in relation to the person, and\n(b) the application has not been withdrawn.\n(4) A supervisory authority may apply to DBS under subsection (3)(a) only if the notification is required in connection with the exercise of a function of the supervisory authority mentioned in section 45(7).\n(5) For the purposes of subsection (3)(b) an application is withdrawn if the supervisory authority notifies DBS that it no longer wishes to be notified if any of the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) occurs in relation to the person.\n(6) A person is subject to a relevant children's disqualification if he is included in a list maintained under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland which the Secretary of State specifies by order as corresponding to the children's barred list.\n(7) The Secretary of State may provide that in prescribed circumstances a supervisory authority is not an interested supervisory authority for the purposes of this section.\n(8) DBS may determine the form, manner and contents of an application for the purposes of this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(1)(a) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 76(3)(a)(ii), 120, Sch. 10 Pt. 5 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(1) 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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 48(1)(c) and preceding word repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 76(3)(a)(v), 120, Sch. 10 Pt. 5 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(2) 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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(8) 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(f) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(8) substituted (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 76(3)(f), 120 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48(6) in force at 19.5.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/1320, art. 5(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 48(7)(8) in force at 19.5.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/1320, art. 4(t)"
    }
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