Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order 1986

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1986/1249

1986No. 1249

REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order 1986

17thJuly1986

11thAugust1986

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 4(4) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974( a), I hereby make the following Order:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order 1986 and shall come into operation on 18th July 1986.

2. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975( b)shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the Schedule to this Order.

Douglas Hurd,

One of Her Majesty's Principal

Home Office.

Secretaries of State.

17th July 1986.

(a) 1974 c.53.

(b) S.I. 1975/1023.

SCHEDULE

Article 2

Amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975

1. At the end of paragraph (a) of Article 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:--

"(aa) any question asked by or on behalf of any person, in the course of the duties of his office or employment, in order to assess the suitability of another person for any office or employment specified in paragraph 14 of Part II of the said Schedule 1 or the suitability of another person to be concerned, otherwise than in the course of the duties of his office or employment, with such provision as is mentioned in that paragraph, if--

(i) the question relates to that other person and the said provision would normally enable that other person to have access to the persons referred to in that paragraph; or(ii) the question relates to a person who lives in the same household as that other person and the said provision would normally take place in that household,

where the person questioned is informed at the time the question is asked that, by virtue of this Order, spent convictions are to be disclosed;".

2. In Part II of Schedule 1 paragraphs 10 and 11 and the words "under the age of 18 or" in paragraph 12(a) shall be omitted.

3. For paragraphs 14 and 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:--

"14. Any office or employment concerned with the provision to persons aged under 18 of accommodation, care, leisure and recreational facilities, schooling, social services, supervision or training, being an office or employment of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access in...

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