{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-4/paragraph-4.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/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Nothing in this Act affects any application for an adoption order under Article 12 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 where—\n(a) the application has been made and has not been disposed of immediately before the repeal of that Article; and\n(b) immediately before that repeal the home of the child in relation to whom the application is made is with a person with whom the child has been placed for adoption by an adoption agency.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2022/18",
      "affecting_title": "Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/18/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}