{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-137.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": "section/137",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": "Renaming of guardians ad litem",
  "text": "(1) A guardian ad litem is to be known as a children’s court guardian.\n(2) In Articles 60 and 61 of the Children Order (guardians ad litem)—\n(a) for “guardian ad litem” (wherever occurring) substitute “children’s court guardian”;\n(b) for “guardians ad litem” (wherever occurring) substitute “children’s court guardians”.\n(3) In the cross-heading preceding Article 60 for “Guardians ad litem” substitute “Children’s court guardians”.\n(4) In each of the following for “guardian ad litem” substitute “children’s court guardian”—\n(a) paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (civil legal services: excluded services);\n(b) paragraph 1(6) of Schedule 2 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (regulated activity);\n(c) Article 28(11) of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (positions of trust).\n(5) Any reference in any other statutory provision to a guardian ad litem is to be read as a reference to a children’s court guardian.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 137 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 137 in operation at 13.2.2023 by S.R. 2023/12, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/18/section/137",
    "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."
}