{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2009/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2009/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups\nMade 1st September 2009\nComing into operation 12th October 2009\nTo be laid before Parliament\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(11), 7(2)(b) and (3)(b), 47(9), 61(1), (2)(a) and (3) of, and paragraphs 6 and 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/305/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:41.413974+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."
}