EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is made under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (“the 2007 Order”). Article 7 of the 2007 Order provides that a person included in a specified list will be barred under the 2007 Order from regulated activity relating to the relevant group.
Article 3 of this Order specifies that the children’s list and the adults’ list maintained by the Scottish Ministers under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”) correspond respectively to the children’s barred list and the adults’ barred list maintained under the 2007 Order.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.