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  "legislation": "nia/2013/2",
  "legislation_title": "Inquiry into Historical Institutional Abuse Act (Northern Ireland) 2013",
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  "path": "section/17",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Enforcement by High Court",
  "text": "(1) Where a person—\n(a) fails to comply with, or acts in breach of, a notice under section 9 or an order made by the chairperson; or\n(b) threatens to do so,\nthe chairperson may certify the matter to the High Court.\n(2) The High Court, after hearing any evidence or representations on the matter certified to it under subsection (1), may make any order by way of enforcement or otherwise which it could have made if the matter had arisen in proceedings before it.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/2/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:33.111250+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."
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