{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-3/paragraph-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-3/paragraph-34.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/3/paragraph/34",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Article 35 (persons qualifying for advice and assistance)—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) In this Part “a person qualifying for advice and assistance” means a person to whom paragraph (1A) or (1B) applies.\n(1A) This paragraph applies to a person—\n(a) who has reached the age of 16 but not the age of 21;\n(b) with respect to whom a special guardianship order is in force (or, if the person has reached the age of 18, was in force when the person reached that age); and\n(c) who was, immediately before the making of that order, looked after by an authority.\n(1B) This paragraph applies to a person to whom paragraph (1A) does not apply, and who—\n(a) is under 21; and\n(b) at any time after reaching the age of 16 but while still a child was, but is no longer, looked after, accommodated or fostered.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph (1)(b)” substitute “paragraph (1B)(b)”;\n(c) in paragraph (5), before sub-paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) in the case of a person to whom paragraph (1A) applies, an authority determined in accordance with regulations made by the Department;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 34 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/3/paragraph/34",
    "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."
}