{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/6",
  "legislation_title": "Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Timing",
  "text": "(1) The Commission may exercise a power conferred by section 15 or 16 only for the purpose of investigating matters arising, and situations that exist, on or after 1st August 2007.\n(2) The Commission may not exercise a power conferred by section 15 to require a person—\n(a) to provide information recorded before that date,\n(b) to provide information relating to a time before that date,\n(c) to produce a document created before that date,\n(d) to produce a document relating to a time before that date, or\n(e) to give oral evidence relating to a time before that date.\n(3) Where a document relates partly to a time before 1st August 2007 and partly to a time on or after that date, subsection (2)(d) applies to the document only in so far as it relates to a time before that date.\n(4) For the purposes of sections 69A(5) and 69C(7) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (as inserted by sections 15 and 16 above), a county court may make an order if it thinks that the Commission has failed to comply, or is not complying, with subsection (1) or (2) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/6/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:55.493954+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."
}