PART IIN.I.PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

CHAPTER IIN.I.DISQUALIFICATION FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN

Interpretation of Chapter IIN.I.

Interpretation of this ChapterN.I.

34.—[F1(1) In this Chapter—

• “children's home” has the[F2 same meaning as in the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003],

• “day care premises” means premises—

  (a)

  in respect of which a person is registered under Part XI of the Children Order for providing day care, or

  (b)

  in which an authority provides day care under Article 19 of that Order,

• “disqualification order” has the meaning given by Article 25,

• “educational institution” means an institution which is exclusively or mainly for the provision of full-time education to children,

• “hospital” has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14),

• “work” includes—

  (a)

  work of any kind, whether paid or unpaid and whether under a contract of service or apprenticeship, under a contract for services, or otherwise than under a contract, and

  (b)

  an office established by or by virtue of a statutory provision,

  and “working” is to be read accordingly.

(2) In this Chapter references, in relation to a suspended sentence, to taking effect are to taking effect by virtue of an order under section 19 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c.29).]