Part II Protection of Children

Effect of disqualification from working with children

38 Rehabilitation of offenders.

1

Where a disqualification order is made in respect of an individual’s conviction of an offence, the rehabilitation period which, in accordance with section 6 of the M1Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, is applicable to the conviction is to be determined as if that order had not been made; and a disqualification order is not a sentence for the purposes of that Act.

2

In this section, “conviction” has the same meaning as in that Act.