{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1954/33",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Date of expiration of enactments.",
  "text": "(1) Where an enactment is expressed to expire, lapse or otherwise cease to have effect on a particular day, the enactment shall, except as provided by sub-section (2), be construed as ceasing to have effect immediately on the expiration of that day.\n(2) Where a Bill is introduced into any session of the Assembly for the continuance of any Act limited to expire in that session and that Act expires before such Bill, having been passed by the Assembly, receives in that session the Royal Assent, that Act shall be deemed to have continued as fully and effectively in operation as if such Bill had received the Royal Assent before that Act expired.\n(3) Sub-section (2) shall not operate so as to render any person liable under the provisions of an Act which has expired to any penalty or forfeiture by reason of any act done by him before the date on which the Bill for the continuance of that Act, having been passed by the Assembly, receives the Royal Assent.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SI 1999/663"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1954/33/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:32.200749+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."
}