# Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 14

Status: prospective

(1) The Department of Justice may make regulations substituting, for the period of 3 years mentioned in paragraph 3(1), such other period (exceeding 6 months) as may be specified in the regulations.
(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may make in paragraph 8(2) any amendment which the Department thinks necessary in consequence of the substitution made by the regulations.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/7/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-7/paragraph-14
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.