Professional bodies and supervisory authorities

43Registers: notice of barring and cessation of monitoring

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Subsection (2) applies if the Secretary of State knows or thinks that a person (A) appears on a relevant register and either—

a

A is newly included in a barred list or the Secretary of State becomes aware that A is subject to a relevant disqualification, or

b

having been subject to monitoring, A ceases to be so subject by virtue of section 26.

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The Secretary of State must—

a

notify the keeper of the register of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) (as the case may be) of subsection (1), and

b

in a case where A is newly included in a barred list, require IBB to provide the keeper with all the information on which IBB relied in deciding to include A in the list.

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If IBB—

a

knows or thinks that a person appears on a relevant register, and

b

becomes aware of relevant information relating to that person,

it must provide the keeper of the register with that information.

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In subsection (3), relevant information is information which—

a

relates to the protection of children or vulnerable adults in general, or of any child or vulnerable adult in particular, and

b

is relevant to the exercise of any function of the keeper of the register.

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But, in that subsection, relevant information does not include—

a

information that any of the events mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b) has occurred in relation to the person;

b

the information mentioned in subsection (2)(b);

c

information falling within paragraph 19(5) of Schedule 3.

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In this section—

a

a relevant register is a register appearing in column 1 of entry 1 or 8 of the table in section 41(7), and

b

in relation to a relevant register, the keeper of the register is the corresponding person appearing in column 2 of the table.

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A person is subject to a relevant disqualification if he is included in a list maintained under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland which the Secretary of State specifies by order as corresponding to a barred list.