{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/section-60.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/47",
  "legislation_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“ adult ” means a person who has attained the age of 18;\n“the adults' barred list” must be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(b);\n“barred list” means the children's barred list or the adults' barred list;\n“child” means a person who has not attained the age of 18;\n“the children's barred list” must be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(a);\n“DBS” means the Disclosure and Barring Service established by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012;\n“educational institution” includes any training provider (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Education Act 2005 (c. 18)), whether or not the training provider would otherwise be regarded as an institution;\n“employment agency” and “employment business” must be construed in accordance with the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (c. 35);\n“personnel supplier” means—\n(a)a person carrying on an employment agency or an employment business, or\n(b)an educational institution which supplies to another person a student who is following a course at the institution, for the purpose of enabling the student to obtain experience of engaging in regulated ... activity;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;\n“supervisory authority” must be construed in accordance with section 45(7);\n“vulnerable adult” means any adult to whom an activity which is a regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults by virtue of any paragraph of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4 is provided.\n(2) A reference (however expressed) to a person being barred must be construed in accordance with section 3.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Nothing in this Act affects any power to provide information that exists apart from this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition in s. 60(1) inserted (E.W.) (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 65(2)(a), 120 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition in s. 60(1) inserted (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), 5 (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(1) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 70(2), Sch. 10 Pt. 5 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(bb)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(1) substituted (E.W.) (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), ss. 65(2)(b), 120 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 60(3) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 70(3), Sch. 10 Pt. 5 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(bb)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 60 in force at 31.3.2008 for specified purposes for N.I. by S.I. 2008/930, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 60 in force at 12.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/2611, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 60(1) in force at 31.12.2007 for specified purposes for E.W. by S.I. 2007/3545, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 60(1)(4) in force at 11.2.2008 for specified purposes for E.W. by S.I. 2007/3545, art. 4(p)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/section/60",
    "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."
}