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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Procedure for issuing Charters",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to a Charter required to be issued under section 28 or 30.\n(2) After preparing the Charter, the Department must lay the Charter before the Assembly.\n(3) The Charter comes into operation on such date as the Department may by order appoint.\n(4) The Department may revise a Charter which is in operation; and subsections (2) and (3) apply to a revised Charter as they apply to the Charter as first prepared.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 in operation at 1.9.2015 by S.R. 2015/320, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/31",
    "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."
}