e/Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982

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has gloss	eng: The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, No. 1536 (N.I. 19), is an Order in Council which decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults in Northern Ireland. 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
lexicalization	eng: Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982
instance of	c/Laws of Northern Ireland