{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-barring-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The minimum barred period: persons subject to more than one previous disqualification",
  "text": "(1) In relation to any person mentioned in regulation 4 who, at the point at which he is included in the children’s barred list, is subject to more than one of the previous restrictions referred to in regulations 5 to 7, the minimum barred period is the period calculated in the manner set out in this regulation.\n(2) Where the person was under the age of 18 at the date of the most recent unsuitability decision made in relation to him, subtract from the period of 5 years the period starting on and including the date of that unsuitability decision and ending on the date on which he is included by DBS in the children’s barred list.\n(3) Where the person had reached the age of 18 at the date of the most recent unsuitability decision made in relation to him, subtract from the period of 10 years the period starting on and including the date of that unsuitability decision and ending on the date on which he is included by DBS in the children’s barred list.\n(4) In this regulation, unsuitability decision means—\n(a) a restriction decision within the meaning of regulation 5(2);\n(b) a disqualification decision within the meaning of regulation 6(2);\n(c) a restriction decision within the meaning of regulation 7(2).",
  "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. 8 in operation at 16.6.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/203/regulation/8",
    "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."
}