{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/203",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Barring Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups\nMade 6th May 2008\nComing into operation 16th June 2008\nTo be laid before Parliament\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 61(1) of, and paragraphs 15(1) and (2), and 18(3)(b) and (6) of Schedule 1 to, the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 18(3)(b) and (6) of Schedule 1 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 refer to periods prescribed for the purposes of those provisions. Article 2(2) of that Order defines “prescribed” as meaning prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/203/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:25.805570+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."
}