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.

A draft of the Order, laid before Parliament in July 1982, was approved by the House of Commons on 25 October by a vote of 168 to 21, and by the House of Lords on 26 October by simple voice vote.

The ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts in Northern Ireland were eventually equalised at 17 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the passage of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000.

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