{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-59",
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  "legislation": "nia/2001/3",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “the principal Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14).\n(2) Except where any provision of this Act otherwise provides, any word or expression to which a meaning is assigned by Article 2(2) or (2A) of the principal Order has the same meaning in this Act as in that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 59(2) inserted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 18(3); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/3/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:53.445230+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."
}