Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order).
This Order provides for the coming into operation on the day following the date on which the Order is made of provisions in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (“the 1995 Order”) authorising the making of orders, regulations or rules of court.
The Order also provides for the coming into operation on 4th November 1996 of the remaining provisions of the 1995 Order not already in operation, except for those provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.
It also provides for the coming into operation on 4th November 1996 of the Children (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1995.