{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2007/1351",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Offences: other persons",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A person commits an offence if, in the course of acting or appearing to act on behalf of a personnel supplier—\n(a) he supplies an individual (B) to another (P),\n(b) he knows or has reason to believe that P will make arrangements for B to engage in regulated activity from which B is barred, and\n(c) he knows or has reason to believe that B is barred from the activity.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to a fine, or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(b) , Schedule 2 is modified as follows—\n(a) in paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (2)(a) must be disregarded;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 23(1) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(2), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 23(3)(4) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(3), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 23(6)(7) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(4), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 23(8) substituted (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(5)(a); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 23(8)(b)(c) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(5)(b), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 23(9) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 92(6), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 23 partly in operation; art. 23 not in operation at date of making see. art. 1(3); art. 23(2) and (5) in operation at 12.10.2009 and art. 23(8) in operation for certain purposes at 12.10.2009 by S.R. 2009/346, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2007/1351/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:04.019457+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."
}