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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Questions and Replies) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Period for service of questions — tribunal cases",
  "text": "In proceedings before a tribunal, a question shall only be admissible as evidence in pursuance of section 56(3) of the Act—\n(a) where it was served before a complaint had been presented to a tribunal, if it was served within the period of three months beginning when the act complained of was done or where the omission complained of first came to the attention of the complainant;\n(b) where it was served when a complaint had been presented to a tribunal, either if it was so served within the period of twenty-one days beginning with the day on which the complaint was presented or if it was so served later with leave given, and within a period specified, by a direction of a tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/532/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:26.731717+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."
}