{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/425",
  "legislation_title": "Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation, construction and citation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 1954 c.33 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order “the principal Act” means the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 1969 c.24.\n(3) This Order and the principal Act shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Acts (Northern Ireland) 1969 and 1976 .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(2) substituted (6.4.2018) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), s. 17(2), Sch. 1 para. 19(2); S.R. 2017/217, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(3) substituted (6.4.2018) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), s. 17(2), Sch. 1 para. 19(3); S.R. 2017/217, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/425/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:55.793005+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."
}