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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-2",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/21",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Collection officers",
  "text": "(1) The Department of Justice may designate civil servants in the Department to be collection officers for the purposes of this Chapter; and a reference in this Chapter to a “collection officer” is a reference to a person so designated.\n(2) The general functions of a collection officer are—\n(a) to provide debtors with information and advice about payment of the sums due;\n(b) to secure compliance with collection orders (see section 3).\n(3) Regulations may make further provision about collection officers; and the regulations may, in particular, confer or impose functions on collection officers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in operation at 3.10.2016 by S.R. 2016/248, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:52.150204+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."
}