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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 113A (criminal record certificates) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (4) for “the registered person who countersigned” substitute “ whoever acted as the registered person in relation to ”.\n(3) After subsection (8) insert—\n“(9) For the purposes of this Part a person acts as the registered person in relation to an application for a criminal record certificate if the person—\n(a) countersigns the application, or\n(b) transmits the application to the Department under subsection (2A).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1 in operation at 2.11.2015 by S.R. 2015/358, art. 2(m)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:10.058862+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."
}