{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-46.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/435",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Orders, regulations and directions",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any order or regulations made by the Lord Chancellor under this Order may contain such incidental, supplemental, consequential, saving or transitional provisions as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit; and, without prejudice to section 17(5) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, any power conferred by this Order to make regulations or orders includes power to make different provision for different areas.\n(5) No order shall be made under Article 10(2) , 29(3) or 38(3) and no regulations shall be made under Article 12(6), 18(1), 20(2)(b) or (d), 20A, 28, 30(2)(a) or (5), 32(1), 36 or 39(3) unless a draft of the order or regulations has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Assembly.\n(6) Any other order or regulations made by the Department under this Order, other than an order under Article 1(2) or 48 ..., shall be subject to negative resolution.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 46(1)-(3) repealed (1.4.2015) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 12(1), Sch. 2 para. 6(37)(a), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3)); S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(e)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 46(5) substituted (1.4.2015) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 12(1), Sch. 2 para. 6(37)(b) (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3)); S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in art. 46(5) inserted (1.4.2015) by Legal Aid and Coroners' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 12(1), Sch. 2 para. 6(37)(b) (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3)); S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 46(5) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(5), Sch. 18 para. 157 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 46(6) inserted (18.11.2014) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 12(2)(d)(iv), Sch. 2 para. 6(37)(c) (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in art. 46(6) repealed (18.11.2014) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 12(2)(d)(iv), Sch. 2 para. 6(37)(c), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 46(6) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(5), Sch. 18 para. 159 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nia/2011/24",
      "affecting_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/435/article/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:15.388759+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}