{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-37.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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Other non-agency cases",
  "text": "(1) In any case where sections 34 to 36 do not apply but—\n(a) the people concerned have given notice of intention to adopt; or\n(b) the people concerned have applied for leave under section 39(6) and the application has not been disposed of,\nthe following persons may remove the child.\n(2) They are—\n(a) a person who has the court’s leave;\n(b) an adoption authority or other person in the exercise of a power conferred by any statutory provision, other than Article 22(2) of the Children Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 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/section/37",
    "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."
}