{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-2.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/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 113B (enhanced criminal record certificates) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (6) for “the registered person who countersigned” substitute “ whoever acted as the registered person in relation to ”.\n(3) After subsection (11) insert—\n“(12) For the purposes of this Part a person acts as the registered person in relation to an application foran enhanced 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. 2 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/2",
    "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."
}