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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1982/338",
  "legislation_title": "The Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-northern-ireland-order-1982",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 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—\n“Department” includes the head of a Department;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 (f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\n“transfer date” means the date on which this Order comes into operation;\n“transferor” and “transferee” respectively mean, in relation to any functions transferred under this Order, the Department from and the Department to which the functions are transferred.\n(3) Any reference in Schedule 1 to an enactment includes—\n(a) a reference to any enactment in force on the transfer date amending or extending that enactment; and\n(b) a reference to so much of any statutory provision in force on the transfer date as confers functions on the Department of Finance for the purposes of that encactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1982/338/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:48.702266+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."
}