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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1977/1250",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part III",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“bodily sample” means a sample of bodily fluid or bodily tissue taken for the purpose of scientific tests;\n“excluded” means excluded subject to the occurrence of mutation and to sections 27 to 29 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and to sections 33 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.\n“scientific tests” means scientific tests carried out under this Part and made with the object of ascertaining the inheritable characteristics of bodily fluids or bodily tissue",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2001 c. 12 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1990 c. 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 13: words in definition of \"excluded\" inserted (6.4.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), ss. 56, 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 67; S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(d)(f) (with transitional provisions in art. 7, Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/1250/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:27.535554+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."
}