{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-61.json",
  "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/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.\n(2) Parts I to III, sections 56 and 60 and the Schedules to this Act shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint; but section 39 shall not be brought into operation by such an order before 1 April 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "partly exercised by SRs 2001/128, 324; SRs 2002/73, 180; SR2003/69, SR2004/107, SR 2005/226"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/3/section/61",
    "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."
}