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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-amendments-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/320",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-amendments-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) The Independent Safeguarding Authority may, at the request of a person (X) who meets the requirement specified in paragraph (3), inform that person whether a person (Y) falls within paragraph (2).\n(2) Y falls within this paragraph if Y is—\n(a) included in the list kept under Article 3 of the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n(b) included in the list kept under Article 35 of the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n(c) included in the list kept under regulation 8 of the Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007; or\n(d) barred from regulated activity.\n(3) The requirement is that X satisfies the Independent Safeguarding Authority that X has a legitimate interest in knowing whether Y falls within paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/417 (N.I. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2007 No. 288."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/320/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:17.633072+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."
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