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Explanatory Memorandum to Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

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  1. Introduction

  2. Background and Policy Objectives

  3. Consultation

  4. Main Elements of the Order

  5. Commentary on Articles

    1. Article 5: The Independent Barring Board

    2. Article 6: Barred Lists

    3. Schedule 1: Barred Lists

    4. Article 7: Barred Persons

    5. Article 8: Appeals

    6. Article 9: Regulated Activity

    7. Schedule 2: Regulated Activity

    8. Article 10: Regulated Activity Providers

    9. Article 11: Barred person not to engage in regulated activity

    10. Article 12: Person not to engage in regulated activity unless subject to monitoring

    11. Article 13: Use of barred person for regulated activity

    12. Article 14: Use of person not subject to monitoring for regulated activity

    13. Article 15: Regulated provider: failure to check

    14. Schedule 3: Appropriate verification

    15. Article 16: Personnel suppliers: failure to check

    16. Schedule 4: Employment Businesses: failure to check

    17. Article 17: Educational establishments: checks on members of governing body

    18. Article 18: Office holders: offences

    19. Article 20: Exception to requirement to make monitoring check

    20. Article 21: Employment by HSS Body

    21. Article 22 and 23: Offences

    22. Article 25: Controlled activity relating to children

    23. Article 26: Controlled activity relating to vulnerable adults

    24. Article 27: Controlled activity: regulations

    25. Article 28: Monitoring

    26. Article 29: Monitoring fees

    27. Article 31: Prohibition of requirement to produce certain records

    28. Article 32: Provision of vetting information

    29. Schedule 5: Vetting information

    30. Article 33: Meaning of relevant information in Article 32

    31. Article 34: Notification of cessation of monitoring

    32. Article 35: Cessation of registration

    33. Article 36: Declarations under articles 32 and 34

    34. Article 37: Regulated activity providers: duty to refer

    35. Article 38: Personnel suppliers: duty to refer

    36. Article 39: Regulated activity providers: duty to provide information on request

    37. Article 40: Duty to provide information: offences

    38. Article 41 and 42: Education and Library Boards and HSS Bodies: duty to refer and duty to provide information on request

    39. Articles 43 to 46: Registers

    40. Articles 47 to 52: Supervisory Authorities

    41. Article 53: Crown application

    42. Article 55: Fostering

    43. Article 56: Alignment with the rest of the UK

    44. Article 59: Transitional provisions

    45. Schedule 6: Transitional provisions

  6. Commencement

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