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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-prescribed-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/40",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Prescribed Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-prescribed-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Prescribed Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and, subject to paragraph (2), come into operation on the 13th March 2009.\n(2) Regulations 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 13 and the Schedule in so far as it relates to those regulations, come into operation on 12th October 2009.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 13.3.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/40/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:17.890035+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."
}