{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2.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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;\n“the 2003 Order” means the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“the 2007 Regulations” means the Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007;\n“Care Tribunal” means the Tribunal established under Article 44 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“disqualification order” means an order of the court under Article 23 or 24 of the 2003 Order;\n“offence against a child” has the same meaning as in Article 22 of the 2003 Order; and\n“previous restriction” means any of—\n(a)inclusion (otherwise than provisionally) in the list kept under Article 3 of the 2003 Order;\n(b)inclusion (otherwise than provisionally) in the list kept under Article 35 of the 2003 Order;\n(c)a disqualification order; or\n(d)inclusion in a list kept for the purposes of the 2007 Regulations (other than on the grounds that condition A or condition B in Part 1 of the Schedule to those Regulations is satisfied in relation to a person).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 16.6.2008, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/417 (N.I. 4) as amended by S.I. 2003 No. 431 (N.I. 9) and which is to be repealed by Schedule 8 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (“the 2007 Order”) which was not in operation on the making of these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R 2007 No. 288."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "An order made under Article 23 or 24 disqualifies the person in respect of whom it is made from working with children."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "see regulation 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/203/regulation/2",
    "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."
}