{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1983/147",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1983",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation (Part III)",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the Act of 1957” means the Government Loans Act (Northern Ireland) 1957\n“the Department” means the Department of Finance and Personnel;\n“government loan” means a loan made under Article 8;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Department subject to negative resolution;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.\n“variable interest loan” means a government loan the rate of interest on which may vary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1957 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/147/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:27.045164+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."
}