Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 248

REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS

Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

21st June 2001

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

14th August 2001

The Secretary of State in pursuance of Articles 5(4) and 8(4) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(1) hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 14th August 2001.

(2) In this Order “the 1979 Order” means the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1979(2).

Amendment of the 1979 Order

2.  For article 2(a)(ii) of the 1979 Order there shall be substituted:

“(ii) of the person to whom the question relates for any office or employment specified in Part II of Schedule 1 or for any work specified in paragraph 12 of Part II of Schedule 1; or”.

3.  For article 3(b) of the 1979 Order there shall be substituted:

“(b) any office, employment or occupation specified in Part II or Part III of Schedule 1 or any other work specified in paragraph 12 of Part II of Schedule 1.”

4.  For the heading to Schedule 1 to the 1979 Order there shall be substituted:

“Excepted professions, offices, employments, work and occupations”

5.  For the heading to Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1979 Order there shall be substituted:

“Offices, employments and work”.

6.  For paragraph 12 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1979 Order there shall be substituted:

“12.   Any employment or other kind of work which is concerned with the provision of health services and which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons in receipt of such services in the course of his normal duties.”

John Reid

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Northern Ireland Office

21st June 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1979 by excepting work which is concerned with the provision of health services and which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons in receipt of such services in the course of his normal duties.

(1)

S.I. 1978/1908 (N.I. 27)

(2)

S.R. 1979 No. 195 is amended by S.R. 1987 No. 393. It is further amended by section 39 of the Osteopaths Act 1993 (c. 21); and section 40 of the Chiropractors Act 1994 (c. 17), both of which are prospectively repealed by sections 133 and 134(2) of and Schedule 10 to the Police Act 1997 (c. 50)