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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-specified-scottish-authority-and-barred-lists-order-northern-ireland-2019/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Specified Scottish Authority and Barred Lists) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Relevant Scottish authority",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraphs 6(2) and 12(2) of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Order, the Scottish Ministers are specified as exercising for the purposes of the law of Scotland functions which correspond to those of DBS.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "DBS means the Disclosure and Barring Service established by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/154/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}