# Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007, Section 20: Timing


(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.
(2) The Commission may not exercise a power conferred by section 15 to require a person—
(a) to provide information recorded before that date,
(b) to provide information relating to a time before that date,
(c) to produce a document created before that date,
(d) to produce a document relating to a time before that date, or
(e) to give oral evidence relating to a time before that date.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/6/section/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007/section-20
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