{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-transfer-and-assignment-of-functions-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/481",
  "legislation_title": "Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/departments-transfer-and-assignment-of-functions-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“instrument” includes any judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, byelaw, certificate or other document;\n“the transfer date” means 1st December 1999;\n“transferor” and “transferee”, in relation to any functions transferred by this Order, mean respectively the department from which and the department to which the functions are transferred.\n(2) In this Order “department” includes—\n(a) in the case of a transferor, the head of the department; and\n(b) in the case of a transferee, the Minister of the department;\nand functions of the head of a department transferred by this Order are transferred to the Minister of a department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/481/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:18.630445+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."
}