Amendments to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order 2009
2.—(1) The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order 2009(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In article 21 (information provided by ISA)—
(a)for paragraph (8) substitute—
“(8) If ISA(2) becomes aware of relevant information relating to a person who it knows or thinks is a person–
(a)to whom sections 141B to 141E of the 2002 Act(3) apply, or
(b)who appears in the register of teachers maintained under section 3 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(4) by the General Teaching Council for Wales(5),
it must provide that information to the Secretary of State or the General Teaching Council for Wales, as the case may be.”; and
(b)for paragraph 9(b) substitute—
“(b)is relevant to the exercise of any function of—
(i)the Secretary of State in respect of sections 141B to 141E of the 2002 Act, or
(ii)the General Teaching Council for Wales,”.
S.I. 2009/2610, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.
In accordance with section 81 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26) legislative references to the Independent Barring Board (IBB) should now be read as references to the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).
Section 141A(1) of the Education Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) sets out the persons to whom sections 141B to 141E apply.
1998 c.30. Section 3 was amended by paragraphs 1 and 3(1) to (6) of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the 2002 Act and by paragraph 76(b) of Schedule 21 to that Act. It was repealed in part by paragraph 76(a) of Schedule 21 and by Part 3 of Schedule 22 to the 2002 Act. It was further amended by paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c.47). Chapter 1 and Schedule 1 are amended by paragraphs 1 to 17 of Schedule 2 to the Education Act 2011 (c.21).
The General Teaching Council for Wales is established under S.I. 1998/2911.