Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (2007 Order) (Commencement No.6 and Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (2007 Order) (Commencement No.5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (Amendment)) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (2007 Order) (Commencement No. 6 and Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (2007 Order) (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (Amendment)) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010.

(2) Articles 4 to 9 come into operation on the day after the day on which this Order is made.

(3) In this Order—

“the Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;

“the 1986 Order” means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

“the 2007 Regulations” means the Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(2);

“the 2008 Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008(3);

“the 2009 Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (2007 Order) (Commencement No.5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (Northern Ireland) 2009(4);

“POCVA” means the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003(5);

“disqualification order” means an order under Article 23 or 24 of POCVA;

“disqualified from working with children” means disqualified from working with children for the purposes of Part II of POCVA;

“ISA” means the Independent Safeguarding Authority(6);

“a regulated position” is one falling within Article 31 of POCVA.

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I.3).

(2)

S.R.2007 No. 288.

(3)

S.R. 2008 No. 200.

(4)

S.R. 2009 No. 346.

(5)

S.I. 2003/417 (N.I.4). The 2003 Order is to be repealed by Schedule 8 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007.

(6)

The ISA was established under section 1 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as the Independent Barring Board or IBB. Section 81 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26) formally renames the IBB as the Independent Safeguarding Authority or ISA. References to the Independent Barring Board or IBB in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 and in other legislation are replaced with (or are to be read as) references to the Independent Safeguarding Authority or ISA.