{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The minimum barred period: persons subject to previous restrictions (children’s barred list)",
  "text": "In the case of any person who is included by DBS in the children’s barred list pursuant to Article 3 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (inclusion in the children’s barred list: persons disqualified from working with children) the minimum barred period is the period calculated in the manner set out in regulations 5 to 8.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in regs. 3-12 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), 13(1)(3)(e) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 16.6.2008, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No. 200."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/203/regulation/4",
    "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."
}