{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995/schedule-8/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995/schedule-8/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/755",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where, immediately before the commencement of Parts II and III, there was in force—\n(a) a declaration under Article 45(3) of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (declaration by court that party to marriage unfit to have custody of children of family); or\n(b) an order under section 12 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 or section 1(4) of the Punishment of Incest Act 1908 divesting a person of authority over a girl;\nthe declaration or, as the case may be, the order shall cease to have effect on the commencement of those Parts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1978 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1885 c. 69"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1908 c. 45"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/755/schedule/8/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:31.848331+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."
}