{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-for-bereavement-variation-of-sum-northern-ireland-order-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-for-bereavement-variation-of-sum-northern-ireland-order-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/74",
  "legislation_title": "The Damages for Bereavement (Variation of Sum) (Northern Ireland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/damages-for-bereavement-variation-of-sum-northern-ireland-order-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Damages\nMade 24th February 2016\nComing into operation 1st April 2016\nThe Department of Justice makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3A(5) of the Fatal Accidents (Northern Ireland) Order 1977and now vested in the Department of Justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/1251 (N.I. 18). Article 3A was inserted by section 68 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c.53). Article 3A(5) was amended by Articles 1(2) and 15(5) of, and paragraph 112 of Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/ 976)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/976."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/74/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:58:12.480986+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."
}