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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/595",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "26th March 1986",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order modified (temp.) (2.4.2020) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 87(2), Sch. 10 para. 3(2)(b) (with ss. 88-90, Sch. 10 para. 2); S.R. 2020/58, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order expiry of earlier affecting provision 2020 c. 7, Sch. 10 paras. 3-13 (25.3.2022) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 (with s. 90)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order applied in part (17.4.2024) by The Armed Forces (Appeals Against Review of Sentence) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/619), regs. 1(2), 6(5)(6), 29(6)(7); S.I. 2024/562, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order: functions of Secretary of State transferred (12.4.2010) to Department of Justice by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 11 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred (12.4.2010) to Department of Justice 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. 39 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:38.738443+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."
}