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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-2016-act-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-2019/article-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/163",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity (2016 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-2016-act-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "Until the coming into operation of section 265 of the Act, the duty on hospital managers which appears at Article 3D “In-patients under 16: duties of hospital managers”, which is to be inserted into the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986 by section 266 of and Schedule 8 paragraph 4 to the Act shall apply to in-patients under 18 and the heading at Article 3D shall instead be construed as “In-patients under 18 – duties of hospital managers”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 29.8.2019"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/163/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:58.561118+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."
}