2.—(1) Where the condition in paragraph (2) is met, the offences referred to in regulations 3 to 6 do not include any offence which a person has committed against a child before the commencement (for all purposes) of section 2 of the Act.
(2) The condition is that the court, having considered whether to make a disqualification order in connection with the commission of the offence, decided not to.
(3) In this regulation the reference to an offence committed against a child must be construed in accordance with Part 2 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000(1).
Section 30(5)(a) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 was amended by paragraphs 1, 3(1) and 4(a) of Schedule 30 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44).