{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An order under paragraph 2 or 3 may—\n(a) modify any criminal offence created by this Order;\n(b) create any new criminal offence,\nbut the penalty for an offence created by virtue of this paragraph must not exceed level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4 wholly in operation at 14.4.2008; Sch. 6 para. 4 not in operation at date of making see art. 1(3); Sch. 6 para. 4 in operation for certain purposes at 14.3.2008 by S.R. 2008/127, art. 3(d); Sch. 6 para. 4 wholly in operation at 14.4.2008 by S.R. 2008/127, art. 4(o)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2007/1351/schedule/6/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}