{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-16/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "text": "In Article 53A of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)) (qualifying offences for the purposes of Part 6 of that Order), in paragraph (2)—\n(a) the second sub-paragraph (t) (inserted by the Space Industry Act 2018) becomes sub-paragraph (u);\n(b) after that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(v) an offence under any of sections 144 to 146 and 156 to 158 of the Health and Care Act 2022 (offences relating to virginity testing and hymenoplasty).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 2 in force at 1.7.2022 by S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/schedule/16/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:41.503468+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."
}