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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-50A/rule-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/50A/rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "[ Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1990 Act” means the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and expressions which are defined in the 1990 Act have the same meaning as in that Act;\n“the 2008 Act” means the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and expressions which are defined in the 2008 Act have the same meaning as in that Act;\n“the 1987 Order” means the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 and expressions which are defined in the 1987 Order have the same meaning as in that Order;\n...\n“the birth mother” means the woman who carried the child;\n“the other parent” means any person, other than the birth mother, who is a parent of the child but is not one of the petitioners and includes any man who is the father by virtue of section 35 of the 2008 Act or any woman who is a parent by virtue of section 42 or 43 of the 2008 Act;\n“the birth parents” means the birth mother and the other parent.]\n(2) The notes appended to Forms 389 to 395 do not form any part thereof and are appended only for the purpose of assisting in their proper completion.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Order 50A rule 1(1) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/302), rules 1, 3(19); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (1) substituted by S.R. 2010 No. 115 with effect from 09.04.10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+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."
}