{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-9C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-9C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/9C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9C",
  "heading": "Complaints to the Commission or the Lord Chancellor",
  "text": "(1) The Commission must make arrangements for investigating any Commission complaint made to it.\n(2) The Lord Chancellor must make arrangements for investigating any departmental complaint made to him.\n(3) Arrangements under this section need not apply to a complaint made more than 28 days after the matter complained of.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A and preceding cross-heading inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 124(2), 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9C inserted (25.9.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 126, 148; S.I. 2006/1537, art. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/9C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:23.998184+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."
}