{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-and-civil-proceedings-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-and-civil-proceedings-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2021/2",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Act (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-and-civil-proceedings-act-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Behaviour occurring outside the UK",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a person's course of behaviour consists of or includes behaviour occurring in a country outside the United Kingdom,\n(b) the domestic abuse offence would be constituted by virtue of the course of behaviour if it occurred in Northern Ireland, and\n(c) the person is a United Kingdom national or is habitually resident in Northern Ireland,\nthe person commits the domestic abuse offence as if the course of behaviour occurred in Northern Ireland.\n(2) In this section—\n“country” includes territory,\n“United Kingdom national” means an individual who is—\n(a)a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen,\n(b)a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject, or\n(c)a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in operation at 21.2.2022 by S.R. 2022/57, art. 2(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2021/2/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:39.398803+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."
}