The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Specified Scottish Authority and Barred Lists) Order 2019

• Citation: S.I. 2019/1161
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Specified Scottish Authority and Barred Lists) Order 2019 and comes into force on the twenty first day after the day on which it is made.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“the 2006 Act” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;

“the 2007 Act” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 .

Section 3 Relevant Scottish authority

For the purposes of paragraphs 6(2) and 12(2) of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Act, the Scottish Ministers are specified as exercising for the purposes of the law of Scotland functions which correspond to those of DBS .

Section 4 Barred lists

For the purposes of—

(a) paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Act, the list maintained under section 1(1)(a) of the 2007 Act (duty of Scottish Ministers to keep the children’s list) is specified as a list corresponding to the children’s barred list;

(b) paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 3 to the 2006 Act, the list maintained under section 1(1)(b) of the 2007 Act (duty of Scottish Ministers to keep the adults’ list) is specified as a list corresponding to the adults’ barred list.