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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-miscellaneous-and-consequential-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/471",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005",
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  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CIVIL PARTNERSHIP\nMade 31st October 2005\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000\nComing into operation in accordance with Article 1\nThe Department for Social Development in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 254(5) and 259 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 33; section 254(5) applies section 171(3), (5) and (6) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) to the exercise of powers under section 259"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/471/introduction",
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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."
}