{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duty to consider whether to revise targets",
  "text": "(1) The Department must consider whether the targets in sections 3 and 4 are consistent with meeting the emissions target in section 1(1).\n(2) In relation to each of the targets in sections 3 and 4, the Department must either—\n(a) lay before the Assembly draft regulations under section 5 to amend the target so as to be consistent with the target in section 1(1), or\n(b) lay before the Assembly a statement explaining why it considers that the target does not need to be amended.\n(3) The Department must lay draft regulations or a statement in relation to each target within the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent.\n(4) Section 54(2) does not apply to regulations laid before the Assembly under subsection (2)(a).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}