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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/755",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "15th March 1995",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order applied (24.6.2013) by The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1465), arts. 1(2), 14(2)-(4); S.S.I. 2013/195, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order extended (21.12.2006) by Children (Prescribed Orders - Isle of Man and Guernsey) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/480), regs. 1(1), 2;Order modified (21.12.2006) by Children (Prescribed Orders - Isle of Man and Guernsey) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/480), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 44 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order: certain provisions applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions and Housing Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/312), regs. 1, 16, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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