{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-47.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1987/2203",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-northern-ireland-order-1987",
  "path": "article/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous",
  "text": "(1) Article 40 does not apply for the purposes of Articles 68 and 69 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (sex with an adult relative); but nothing in this paragraph is to be read as preventing the application of Article 40 for the purposes of Article 68(3)(a) or (b) or 69(3)(a) or (b) of that Order (incest).\n(2) Article 40 does not apply for any purpose relating to nationality or immigration.\nPara. (3) rep. 1988 NI 2\n(4) The revocation of an adoption order under Article 55 does not affect any right to property under an instrument executed before the date of revocation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 47(1) substituted (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, Sch. 1 para. 19; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 47(1)(2) applied (with modifications) (6.4.2010) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/985), reg. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/2203/article/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:49.310353+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."
}