{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Cancellation of registration",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Where, by virtue of the cancellation of the registration of any person under Part III of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003, a body has ceased to be an appropriate voluntary organisation, the Department may direct the body. . . to make such arrangements as to children who are in its care and other transitional matters as seem to the Department expedient.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 5(1) repealed (29.10.2010) by Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), arts. 1(3), 50(2), Sch. 5; S.R. 2010/288, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(2) substituted (29.10.2010) by Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), arts. 1(3), 50(1), Sch. 4; S.R. 2010/288, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 5(2) repealed (29.10.2010) by Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), arts. 1(3), 50(2), Sch. 5; S.R. 2010/288, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/2203/article/5",
    "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."
}