The National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts creates 12 new criminal offences. We discussed in our most recent essay – Handle That Vetting Disclosure With Care: 3 New Criminal Offences – the concept that when legislators feel the need to write laws to regulate …Read More
Legislation
Handle That Vetting Disclosure with Care: 3 New Criminal Offences
We’re looking this week at the central importance of vetting in the policing and security of the Irish state; at three new criminal offences around the mishandling and falsification of vetting disclosures; and we look at the criminal penalties for breaches of the legislation.Section 26 of …Read More
12 Powers of the Compliance Officer
Section 24 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – is, arguably, one of the most important milestones along the road to changing and improving the approach to …Read More
Holding the National Vetting Bureau to Account
Section 23 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – is one of the shortest sections of the vetting legislation.
Section 23 stipulates that the National Vetting …Read More
The Chief Bureau Officer – The Role, The Reporting, The Functions
Section 22 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – sets out the manner of the appointment of the person to the role of Chief Bureau Officer of …Read More
Retrospective Vetting
Section 21 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – deals with the retrospective vetting of people currently in your organisation. Section 21 sets out the new statutory …Read More
Re-vetting: the requirement, offence, defence & delays
Section 20 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – deals with the re-vetting of people after a certain amount of time has passed.Importantly, section 20 of the …Read More
Scheduled Organisations & Specified Information
Section 19 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – lists out the types of organisations that are obliged to contact the National Vetting Bureau as and when …Read More
Appealing a Decision of the Chief Bureau Officer
Section 18 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – deals with the process for appealing a ‘determination’ (or decision) of the Chief Bureau Officer.Unlike many other sections …Read More
The Role of the Independent Appeals Officer
Section 17 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as Garda vetting – deals with the appointment of persons (experienced lawyers) who are given the power to review decisions taken under …Read More
