
1 
This Order may be cited as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Specified Scottish Authority and Barred Lists) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and comes into operation on 19thAugust 2019.
2 
In this Order—
 “the 2007 Act” means the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007;
 “the 2007 Order” means the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007.
3 
For the purposes of paragraphs 6(2) and 12(2) of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Order, the Scottish Ministers are specified as exercising for the purposes of the law of Scotland functions which correspond to those of DBS.
4 
For the purposes of—
(a) paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Order, 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 1 to the 2007 Order, 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.
Victoria Atkins
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Home Office
22nd July 2019