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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historical-institutional-abuse-northern-ireland-act-2019/section-21",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/31",
  "legislation_title": "Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historical-institutional-abuse-northern-ireland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Establishment of the Commissioner",
  "text": "(1) An officer known as the Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse is established (and referred to in this Act as “the Commissioner”).\n(2) The Commissioner is to be appointed by the Executive Office.\n(3) Schedule 2 makes further provision about the Commissioner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 2.11.2020 by S.R. 2020/229, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/31/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:02:24.431281+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."
}