{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-amendments-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Section 116 of the Police Act 1997 has effect subject to the following modifications.\n(2) For subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) Section 113B(3) to (11) and sections 113BA and 113BB shall apply in relation to this section with any necessary further modifications.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 113B of the Police Act 1997 was inserted by section 163(2) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15) and amended by section 63(1) of, and paragraph 14(1) and (3) of Schedule 9 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c.47)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 113BA of the Police Act was inserted by section 63(1) of, and paragraph 14(1) and (4) of Schedule 9 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and amended by section 116(5)(h) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), section 170(2) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40) and section 169 of, and paragraph 12(a) and (b) of Schedule 1 to the Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/320/article/7",
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  },
  "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."
}