{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/18",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where an adopted person who is in Northern Ireland—\n(a) applies for information under paragraph 1;\n(b) applies for information under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002; or\n(c) is supplied with information under section 55(4)(b) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007,\nany adoption agency must, if asked by the applicant to do so, provide counselling for the applicant.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/18/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:21.400523+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."
}