Difference between revisions of "Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982"
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Revision as of 19:55, 19 August 2012
The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, No. 1536 (N.I. 19), was an Order in Council which decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults in Northern Ireland, bringing Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the United Kingdom, but with an age of consent of 18 rather than 21.
The Order was adopted as a result of a European Court of Human Rights case, Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981), which ruled that Northern Ireland's criminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults was a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. At that time there was no devolved assembly in Nortern Ireland, so legislation was enacted by the British Government by Order in Council.
External links
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1982/1536#reference-c546654 Text of the Order, incorporating subsequent revisions changing the age of consent to 17.
