The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Prescribed Criteria) (Foreign Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009
This Order is made under Article 61 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (“the 2007 Order”). It amends paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Order by conferring a power on the Secretary of State to prescribe foreign offences for the purposes of paragraphs 1, 2, 7 and 8 of that Schedule. Paragraphs 1, 2, 7 and 8 refer to the criteria that may be prescribed by the Secretary of State which lead to the automatic inclusion of a person in the children’s barred list or the adults’ barred list.