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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-meetings-and-performance-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-5",
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  "legislation": "nia/2021/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-meetings-and-performance-act-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Updated reference to the Department",
  "text": "In section 126 (interpretation) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014, in the definition of “the Department” in subsection (1), for “the Department of the Environment” substitute “the Department for Communities”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in operation at 27.8.2021, see s. 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2021/8/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:34.641678+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."
}