{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-and-civil-proceedings-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-and-civil-proceedings-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-21.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/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Meaning of ill-treatment etc. in offence provision",
  "text": "In section 20 (cruelty to persons under 16) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968—\n(a) in subsection (1), the words from “(including” to “derangement)” are repealed,\n(b) before paragraph (a) of subsection (2) insert—\n“(za) a reference to—\n(i) ill-treatment is to ill-treatment whether physical or otherwise;\n(ii) suffering or injury is to suffering or injury whether physical or otherwise;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in operation at 21.2.2022 by S.R. 2022/57, art. 2(u)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2021/2/section/21",
    "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."
}