{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/322",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exceptions from Regulated Activity Relating to Vulnerable Adults",
  "text": "The provision to an adult of health care (as defined in paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order) by a person who is not, but who acts under the direction or supervision of, a health care professional (as defined in paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order) is not to be treated as a regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults where that health care—\n(a) is provided under regulations under Article 62 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 in practice premises or as mobile services; or\n(b) is provided in a registered pharmacy (within the meaning of Part IV of the Medicines Act 1968).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was substituted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was substituted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1968 c. 7."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/322/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:16.481027+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."
}