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<Text>The <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00057"/>Police Act 1997 shall be amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text>In section 113 (criminal record certificates)—</Text>
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<Text>in subsection (3A), after “(3B),” there shall be inserted “or his suitability to adopt a child,”; and</Text>
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<Text>after subsection (3D) (inserted by section 90) there shall be inserted—</Text>
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<Text>The references in subsections (3A) and (3C) to suitability to be employed, supplied to work, found work or given work in a position falling within subsection (3B) or (3D) include references to suitability to be registered—</Text>
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<Text>under Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000 (establishments and agencies);</Text>
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<Text>under Part IV of that Act (social care workers); or</Text>
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<Text>for child minding or providing day care under Part XA of the <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00058"/>Children Act 1989, or under section 71 of that Act or Article 118 of the <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00059"/>Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (child minding and day care).</Text>
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<Text>In section 115 (enhanced criminal record certificates)—</Text>
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<Text>in subsection (5)—</Text>
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<Text>after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted—</Text>
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<Text>registration under Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000 (establishments and agencies);</Text>
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<Text>registration under Part IV of that Act (social care workers);</Text>
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<Text>a decision made by an adoption agency within the meaning of section 11 of the <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00060"/>Adoption Act 1976 as to a person’s suitability to adopt a child.</Text>
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<Text>in subsection (6A), after “113,” there shall be inserted “or his suitability to adopt a child,”.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/50" id="c00113" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1997" Number="0050">1997 c. 50</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/41" id="c00114" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1989" Number="0041">1989 c. 41</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1995/755" id="c00115" Class="NorthernIrelandOrderInCouncil" AlternativeNumber="N.I. 2" Year="1995" Number="0755">S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/36" id="c00116" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1976" Number="0036">1976 c. 36</Citation>.</Text>
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