{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-14",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/677",
  "legislation_title": "The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-and-family-proceedings-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Variation of consent orders by courts of summary jurisdiction",
  "text": "For Article 22(2) of the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (under which the court can vary a consent order by ordering the payment of a lump sum if the consent order provided for the payment of a lump sum) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(2) Where the court has made an order under Article 8 for the making of periodical payments by a party to a marriage the court shall have power, on an application made under this Article, to vary or revoke that order and also to make an order for the payment of a lump sum by that party either—\n(a) to the other party to the marriage, or\n(b) to a child of the family or to that other party for the benefit of that child.” .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1980 NI 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/677/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:25.501671+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."
}