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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-parental-responsibility-agreement-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/455",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Parental Responsibility Agreement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Recording of parental responsibility agreement",
  "text": "(1) A parental responsibility agreement shall be recorded by filing the agreement, together with two copies, in the Office of Care and Protection.\n(2) Upon the filing of the agreement and the two copies in the Office of Care and Protection, the Office shall seal the copies and send one to the child’s mother and the other to the child’s father.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1892",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/455/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:21.225011+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."
}