{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "The Disclosure and Barring Service",
  "text": "In this Order references to DBS are references to the Disclosure and Barring Service established by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 5 substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 7 (with Pt. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2007/1351/article/5",
    "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."
}