{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-85.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/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Power to modify sections 82 and 84",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide for section 82 not to apply if—\n(a) the adopters or (as the case may be) prospective adopters are natural parents, natural relatives or guardians of the child in question (or one of them is); or\n(b) the British resident in question is a partner of a parent of the child,\nand any prescribed conditions are met.\n(2) Regulations may provide for section 84(1) to apply with modifications, or not to apply, if—\n(a) the prospective adopters are parents, relatives or guardians of the child in question (or one of them is); or\n(b) the prospective adopter is a partner of a parent of the child,\nand any prescribed conditions are met.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 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/85",
    "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."
}