{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/976",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Department of Justice” means the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;\n“instrument” includes (in particular) Royal Charters, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, bye-laws, awards, licences, codes, guidance, authorisations, consents, approvals, contracts and other agreements, memoranda and articles of association, warrants, certificates, deeds and other documents;\n“property” includes rights and interests of any description;\n“records” includes written records and records conveying information by any other means;\n“relevant function” means—\n(a) a function transferred by article 4(1), 15(1) to (4) or 17(2), or\n(b) a function transferred by or by virtue of any provision of Schedules 2 to 19,\nand the cases covered by paragraphs (a) and (b) include (in particular) cases where the function transferred was part of a larger function (for example, where a function that is exercisable in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland is transferred so far as it is exercisable in relation to Northern Ireland);\n“relevant property or liability” means any property or liability transferred by article 18;\n“transferor” and “transferee”, in relation to a relevant function or any relevant property or liability, mean respectively—\n(a) the person from whom the function or property or liability is transferred, and\n(b) the person to whom the function or property or liability is transferred.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/976/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:39.950485+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."
}