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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historical-institutional-abuse-redress-board-applications-and-appeals-rules-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board (Applications and Appeals) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/historical-institutional-abuse-redress-board-applications-and-appeals-rules-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Historical Institutional Abuse\nMade 27th March 2020\nComing into operation - 31st March 2020\nThe Executive Office, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(4) and (5), 6(4), 9(2), 16(3) and 19(1), (2), (5) and (6) of the Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019, makes the following Rules.\nIn accordance with section 20(1) of that Act, the Executive Office has obtained the approval of the Lord Chief Justice to the making of these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2019 c. 31"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/50/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:25.611782+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."
}