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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/declarations-of-parentage-allocation-of-proceedings-order-northern-ireland-2002/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/declarations-of-parentage-allocation-of-proceedings-order-northern-ireland-2002/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/119",
  "legislation_title": "The Declarations of Parentage (Allocation of Proceedings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/declarations-of-parentage-allocation-of-proceedings-order-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement of proceedings",
  "text": "Proceedings under Article 31B of the Order of 1989 may be commenced in a family proceedings court, a family care centre or the High Court.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 15.4.2002, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/677 (N.I. 4) Article 31B was inserted by section 66 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/119/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:08:06.586889+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."
}