{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-injuries-compensation-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-injuries-compensation-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/796",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Injuries Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-injuries-compensation-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Approval of the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) Before making the Scheme, the Secretary of State shall lay a draft of it before the Assembly.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall not make the Scheme unless the draft has been approved by a resolution of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(1) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(3), Sch. 2 para. 22(5)(a) (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(2) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(3), Sch. 2 para. 22(5)(b) (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/796/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:34.198345+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."
}