{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/228",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "18th February 1981",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order repealed (1.11.2003 for the repeals of arts.18(1)-(7), 19, 20.3.2006 the repeal of art. 23, 1.4.2015 for the repeal of Pt. 2 to the extent that it remains in operation, otherwise prosp.) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2003/344, art. 4, Sch. 2; S.R. 2006/27, art. 3; S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "functions transferred by SI 1982/159"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order: power to amend conferred (1.9.2012) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), ss. 90(2)(b), 111(3); S.R. 2012/214, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (30.4.2007) by Legal Aid (Asylum and Immigration Appeals) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1318), reg. 7(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 36 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/228/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:18.959398+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."
}