{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-and-appellate-proceedings-restriction-of-publicity-act-1968/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-and-appellate-proceedings-restriction-of-publicity-act-1968/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/63",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic and Appellate Proceedings (Restriction of Publicity) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-and-appellate-proceedings-restriction-of-publicity-act-1968",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions relating to Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) ... Section 1 shall apply in relation to an appeal, and an application for leave to appeal, against a decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and, where the appeal is to the Supreme Court, of . . . the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland as if each of those courts were a court mentioned in subsection (4) of that section.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) This section and so much of this Act as is applied by this section shall extend to Northern Ireland but save as aforesaid this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1) repealed (10.3.2013) by The Competition Act 1998 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/294), arts. 1, 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) repealed (10.3.2013) by The Competition Act 1998 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/294), arts. 1, 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 18; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed (with saving) by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 6 para. 13, Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 4(3) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/63/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:47.909720+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."
}