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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/443",
  "legislation_title": "Contact with Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Departure from terms of court order on contact under Article 53",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an authority may depart from the terms of any order under Article 53 (parental contact etc. with children in care) by agreement between the authority and the person in relation to whom the order is made.\n(2) An agreement under paragraph (1) is subject to the agreement of the child where he is of sufficient understanding.\n(3) Within 7 days of an agreement under paragraph (1), notification shall be sent to the persons specified in regulation 2 containing those parts of the information specified in the Schedule as the authority considers those persons need to know.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/443/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:29.488611+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."
}