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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a person if—\n(a) it appears to DBS that the person —\n(i) has (at any time) engaged in relevant conduct, and\n(ii) is or has been, or might in future be, engaged in regulated activity relating to children,, and\n(b) DBS proposes to include him in the children's barred list.\n(2) DBS must give the person the opportunity to make representations as to why he should not be included in the children's barred list.\n(3) DBS must include the person in the children's barred list if—\n(a) it is satisfied that the person has engaged in relevant conduct,\n(aa) it has reason to believe that the person is or has been, or might in future be, engaged in regulated activity relating to children, and\n(b) it is satisfied that it is appropriate to include the person in the list.\n(4) This paragraph does not apply to a person if the relevant conduct consists only of an offence committed against a child before the commencement of Article 6 and the court, having considered whether to make a disqualification order, decided not to.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (4)—\n(a) the reference to an offence committed against a child must be construed in accordance with Chapter II of Part II of the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n(b) a disqualification order is an order under Article 23 or 24 of that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 paras. 2-5 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), 6(f)(i) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(1)(a) substituted (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 7 para. 4(3)(a); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(z)(i) (with arts. 6-16) (as amended (31.3.2014) by S.I. 2014/831, art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(aa) inserted (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 7 para. 4(3)(b); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(z)(i) (with arts. 6-16) (as amended (31.3.2014) by S.I. 2014/831, art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(3)(b) substituted (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 7 para. 4(3)(c); S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(z)(i) (with arts. 6-16) (as amended (31.3.2014) by S.I. 2014/831, art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3(4) modified (12.10.2009) by Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Regulated Activity, Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/304), art. 22(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 wholly in operation; Sch. 1 para. 3 not in operation at date of making see art. 1(3); Sch. 1 para. 3 in operation for certain purposes at 14.4.2008 by S.R. 2008/127, art. 4(a); Sch. 1 para. 3 in operati9on at 13.3.2009 by S.R. 2009/41, art. 3(1)(i)"
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