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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/305",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2007 Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;\n“relative” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 12.10.2009, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/305/article/2",
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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."
}