{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1047",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Evidence",
  "text": "(1) In proceedings under this Order relating to indecent photographs of children a person is to be taken as having been a child at any material time if it appears, from the evidence as a whole, that he was then under the age of eighteen.\nParas. (2)‐(5) rep. by 1989 NI 12",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1994 c. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 7(1) substituted (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 42(3); S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1047/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:04.802561+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."
}