{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-sexual-orientation-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/439",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-sexual-orientation-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exceptions from regulation 12 for decisions not to prosecute etc",
  "text": "Regulation 12 does not apply to —\n(a) a decision not to institute criminal proceedings and, where such a decision has been made, any act done for the purpose of enabling the decision whether to institute criminal proceedings to be made;\n(b) where criminal proceedings are not continued as a result of a decision not to continue them, the decision and where such a decision has been made —\n(i) any act done for the purpose of enabling the decision whether to continue the proceedings to be made; and\n(ii) any act done for the purpose of securing that the proceedings are not continued.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in operation at 1.1.2007, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/439/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:26.170767+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."
}