{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/37",
  "legislation_title": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) This Act (except sections 33A(2)(r) and 37) extends to Northern Ireland.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 7 para. 14; S.I. 2009/2232, art. 2(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 48(2) repealed (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, s. 100(2), Sch. 15; S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 wholly in force at 1.11.1994; s. 48 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 49(2); s. 48(1) in force for specified purposes at 1.4.1991, 8.7.1991 and 1.8.1991 by S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(1)(2); s. 48(2) in force at 1.8.1991 by S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(1)(2); s. 48(1) in force for specified purposes at 5.7.1994 and 1.11.1994 by S.I. 1994/1776, art. 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/37/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:58.103804+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."
}