{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-1999-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-1999-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/480",
  "legislation_title": "The Departments (1999 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-1999-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The provisions of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (except for Article 8 and the repeal of section 4 of the Ministries Act (Northern Ireland) 1944) shall come into operation on 1st December 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1944 c. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/480/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:19.255021+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."
}