{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-45",
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  "legislation": "nia/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Progress report after statement about emissions target for 2030",
  "text": "(1) No later than six months after the Department lays the statement under section 41 for 2030 before the Assembly, the Committee on Climate Change must send a report to the Department setting out the Committee’s views on—\n(a) whether the emissions targets for 2040 and 2050 are the highest achievable targets,\n(b) if any of them is not the highest achievable target—\n(i) what is the highest achievable target, and\n(ii) what further measures are needed to meet the highest achievable target.\n(2) The Department must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 45 in operation at 7.6.2022, see s. 64"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/31/section/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:11.373503+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."
}