{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-147",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-147.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994",
  "path": "section/147",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "147",
  "heading": "Homosexuality on merchant ships and in the armed forces: Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) In the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, the following are revoked—\n(a) in article 3(1) (homosexual acts in private), the words “and Article 5 (merchant seamen)”; and\n(b) article 5 (homosexual acts on merchant ships).\n(2) Article 3(4) of the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (homosexual acts in the armed forces) is revoked.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 147(3) omitted (27.4.2017) by virtue of Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017 (c. 26), ss. 1, 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1536 (N.I. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/147",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:43.965785+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."
}