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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exceptions from Regulated Activity Relating to Vulnerable Adults",
  "text": "The provision to an adult of physical assistance in connection with the care of hair (within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B)(a)(vi) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order) is not to be treated as a regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults where that assistance relates solely to the cutting of the adult’s hair.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was inserted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/322/article/7",
    "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."
}