{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1982/schedule-6/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1982/schedule-6/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/53",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (2) of Article 2 of the Fatal Accidents (Northern Ireland) Order 1977—\n“(2) In this Order “dependant” means—\n(a) the wife or husband or former wife or husband of the deceased;\n(b) any person who—\n(i) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death; and\n(ii) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date; and\n(iii) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased;\n(c) any parent or other ascendant of the deceased;\n(d) any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent;\n(e) a child or other descendant of the deceased;\n(f) any person (not being a child of the deceased) who, in the case of any marriage to which the deceased was at any time party, was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to that marriage;\n(g) any person who is, or is the issue of, a brother, sister, uncle or aunt of the deceased;\nand “the deceased” has the meaning given by Article 3(2).\n(2A) The reference to the former wife or husband of the deceased in paragraph (2)(a) includes a reference to a person whose marriage to the deceased has been annulled or declared void as well as a person whose marriage to the deceased has been dissolved.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977 No. 1251 (N.I. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 4, 6(1)(2), 14(1)(2)(4), 15(1)(3)(6), 16–19, 28(7), 34, 35, 49–54, 56–59, 61, 63–67, 69(1)(2), 70, 72(1), 75, Sch. 1 Pts. I, III, IV, Sch. 3 Pt. III para. 7, Sch. 4 Pt. I, Sch. 6 paras. 2–9, Sch. 7 Pts. I, II, Sch. 7 Pt. III paras 2, 3, Sch. 8, Sch. 9 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/53/schedule/6/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:44.736013+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."
}