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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flags-northern-ireland-order-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flags-northern-ireland-order-2000/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2000/1347",
  "legislation_title": "The Flags (Northern Ireland) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flags-northern-ireland-order-2000",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Flying of flags",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations regulating the flying of flags at government buildingsand court-houses.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “government building” means a building wholly or mainly occupied by members of the Northern Ireland Civil Service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1) inserted (12.4.2010) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 26), ss. 67(1), 87(1); S.R. 2010/113, art. 2, Sch. para. 15"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2000/1347/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:37.142240+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."
}