{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-northern-ireland-1950/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-northern-ireland-1950/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1950/29",
  "legislation_title": "Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-northern-ireland-1950",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Prosecution of offences.",
  "text": "Proceedings for any offence under this Act shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Department or by an officer authorised in that behalf by special or general directions of the Department .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 8 substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 33 (with art. 9(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1950/29/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:56.080263+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."
}