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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administrative-and-financial-provisions-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-10",
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  "legislation": "nia/2026/10",
  "legislation_title": "Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administrative-and-financial-provisions-act-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Section 9: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) The power under section 9 does not enable the Executive Office to do anything that it is unable to do by virtue of a limiting provision.\n(2) A “limiting provision” is a statutory provision that prohibits or prevents the Executive Office from doing something or limits its powers in that respect.\n(3) The absence from a statutory provision of provision conferring any power does not of itself make that provision a limiting provision.\n(4) The power under section 9 may not be exercised in a way that unreasonably duplicates anything that may or must be done in pursuance of a function, under any statutory provision (whenever passed or made), of another Northern Ireland department.\n(5) Subsection (4) does not prevent the exercise of the power under section 9 in a way that duplicates anything of the kind mentioned in that subsection if the other Northern Ireland department consents to that exercise of the power.\n(6) The power under section 9 does not enable the Executive Office to do anything for the purpose of enabling it to raise money by levying or imposing any form of tax or charge, by borrowing or otherwise.\n(7) Subsection (6) does not prevent the Executive Office from imposing reasonable charges for anything done by it under section 9.\n(8) The power under section 9 does not authorise a disclosure of information in breach of any restriction on the disclosure of the information (however imposed).\n(9) In determining for the purposes of subsection (8) whether a disclosure would breach the data protection legislation, the powers conferred by section 9 are to be taken into account.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2026/10/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:08.340730+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."
}