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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-registration-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-21",
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  "legislation": "nia/2011/20",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-registration-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Refusal to give information",
  "text": "In Article 44 of the 1976 Order (refusal to give information), sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) (which makes it an offence to fail to sign a register in the presence of the registrar when required to do so by the 1976 Order) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in operation at 16.11.2012 by S.R. 2012/406, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/20/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:45.813882+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."
}