Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Prescribed Criteria) (Foreign Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 comes into force

Implementation date: 27 February 2009

The Order amends the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 to confer a power on the Secretary of State to prescribe foreign offences that lead to the automatic inclusion of a person on the children’s barred list or the adults’ barred list. The Order can be viewed on the OPSI website.