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SCHEDULE 1Excepted professions, offices, employments and occupations

PART II

Offices and employments

1.  Judicial appointments.

2.  The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland and any employment in his office.

3.  Employment in the Northern Ireland Court Service.

4.  Constables, persons appointed as police cadets to undergo training with a view to becoming constables and persons employed for the purposes of, or to assist the constables of, a police force established under any enactment; naval, military and air force police.

5.  Any employment which is concerned with the administration of, or is otherwise normally carried out wholly or partly within the precincts of, a prison, remand centre, remand home, training school, special reception centre, Borstal institution or young offenders centre, and members of boards of visitors for prisons appointed under section 10 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953(1), members of visiting committees for Borstal institutions appointed under section 11 of that Act, and members of visiting committees for young offenders centres appointed under section 3 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968(2).

6.  Civilian Search Officers appointed under section 53 of the Explosives Act 1875(3) to be inspectors under that Act.

7.  Traffic wardens authorised to discharge functions under Part VII of the Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(4).

8.  Probation officers appointed under section 12 of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(5).

9.  Any employment as a teacher in a school or institution of further education within the meaning of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(6) or as an instructor in a government training centre and any other employment which is carried out wholly or partly within the precincts of a school, institution of further education or centre, being employment which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons under the age of 18 in attendance at the school, institution of further education or centre in the course of his normal duties; or employment as a peripatetic teacher within the meaning of article 53 of that Order.

10.  Proprietors of independent schools.

11.  Any employment by a Health and Social Services Board in connection with the provision of personal social services or by any other body in connection with the provision by it of similar services, being employment which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to any of the following classes of person in the course of his normal duties, namely—

(a)persons under the age of 18 or over the age of 65;

(b)persons suffering from serious illness or mental disorder of any description;

(c)persons addicted to alcohol or drugs;

(d)persons who are blind, deaf or dumb;

(e)other persons who are substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity.

12.  Any employment which is concerned with the provision of health services and which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons in receipt of such services in the course of his normal duties.

13.  Any employment by a youth club, Education and Library Board, district council, or other body which is concerned with the promotion of leisure or recreational activities for persons under the age of 18, being employment which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to such persons in the course of his normal duties.

14.  Any employment within a cadet force concerned with naval, military or air force training for persons under the age of 18, being employment which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to such persons in the course of his normal duties.