{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Contracts Exclusion Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Development agreements",
  "text": "(1) A construction contract is excluded from the operation of the 1997 Order if it is a development agreement.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a contract is a development agreement if it includes provision for the disposal of a relevant estate in the land on which take place the principal construction operations to which the contract relates.\n(3) In paragraph (2) a relevant estate in land means—\n(a) a freehold; or\n(b) a leasehold for a period which is to expire no earlier than 12 months after the completion of the construction operations under the contract.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in operation at 1.6.1999, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/33/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:23.274565+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."
}