{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-28.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1991/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991",
  "path": "article/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Applications for declaration of parentage under Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies where—\n(a) an application for a maintenance calculation has been made ... , or a maintenance calculation is in force, with respect to a person ( “the alleged parent”) who denies that he is a parent of a child with respect to whom the application or calculation was made ...;\n(b) the Department is not satisfied that the case falls within one of those set out in Article 27(2); and\n(c) the Department or the person with care makes an application for a declaration under Article 31B of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 as to whether or not the alleged parent is one of the child's parents.\n(2) Where this Article applies—\n(a) if it is the person with care who makes the application, that person shall be treated as having a sufficient personal interest for the purposes of paragraph (3) of that Article; and\n(b) if it is the Department which makes the application, that paragraph shall not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2000 c. 4 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 28(1)(a) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 10), s. 41(1), Sch. 5; S.R. 2008/399, art. 2(2)(d)(i) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:21.435585+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."
}