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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/482",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Duration of approvals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 17(3), 20 and 21, a place approval shall be valid from the date it is granted for a period of three years, or such lesser period as the authority may determine.\n(2) Subject to regulations 20 and 21, a temporary place approval shall be valid only for the date stated in that approval unless the authority, on the request of the applicant in writing, agrees to amend the stated date.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/482/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:04.274857+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."
}