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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administrative-and-financial-provisions-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Support services for victims and survivors",
  "text": "(1) The Executive Office may arrange or facilitate the provision of a relevant service to an individual who is a victim and survivor.\n(2) A “relevant service” means a service designed—\n(a) to help the individual to obtain information about any matter connected to their circumstances or experience as a victim and survivor,\n(b) to support the individual in connection with any process to—\n(i) inquire into the circumstances or experience of, or\n(ii) provide financial redress for or in respect of,\nvictims and survivors of the description the individual is within (see subsection (3)),\n(c) to improve the individual’s physical or mental health,\n(d) to help the individual to overcome an addiction,\n(e) to provide the individual with counselling,\n(f) to improve the individual’s literacy or numeracy,\n(g) to provide the individual with other education or training,\n(h) to enable the individual to access opportunities for work, or\n(i) to help the individual in relation to managing financial matters (including how to access financial support).\n(3) An individual is a “victim and survivor” if the individual—\n(a) is a victim and survivor for the purposes of Part 2 of the Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019,\n(b) was a resident of a relevant institution within the meaning of section 4 of the Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 in the period between 1922 and 1995 (both inclusive),\n(c) is a child of someone within paragraph (b) who was born during the person’s period of residence in the institution between those dates, or\n(d) is within such other description as may be prescribed in regulations made by the Executive Office.\n(4) A prescribed description must include—\n(a) the individual having suffered a kind of abuse, or\n(b) the individual having resided in an institution of some kind in a period that does not—\n(i) begin before 1922, or\n(ii) end after 1995.\n(5) The following are abuse for the purposes of subsection (4)(a)—\n(a) sexual, physical or emotional abuse or neglect or maltreatment,\n(b) witnessing one or more other persons suffer one of those things, or\n(c) otherwise being exposed to a harsh environment.\n(6) Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution.\n(7) The Executive Office may—\n(a) make payments to any person in pursuance of arrangements under subsection (1),\n(b) facilitate something under subsection (1) by making payments towards the cost of providing it.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}