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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/47",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision for the government of Northern Ireland for the purpose of implementing the agreement reached at multi-party talks on Northern Ireland set out in Command Paper 3883.\n[19th November 1998]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (5.10.1999) by 1999 c. 10, ss. 16, 20(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (temp. from 12.2.2000 to 30.5.2000) by 2000 c. 1, s. 1(8), Sch. para. 5(2); S.I. 2000/396, art. 2; S.I. 2000/1445, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (8.5.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c. 53), s. 11(2)-(5), 27(4)(5) (as amended by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007 c. 4, s. 1(1) (with s. 1(3)); S.I. 2007/1397, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified (8.5.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c. 53), s. 18(8), 27(4)(5) (as amended by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007 c. 4, s. 1(1) (with s. 1(3)); S.I. 2007/1397, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.11.2018) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 (c. 28), s. 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (6.12.2022) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 (c. 48), ss. 5(1), 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act modified (28.2.2023) by 2022 c. 48, s. 1A (as inserted by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Act 2023 (c. 4), ss. 1(3), 3(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act modified (6.12.2022) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 (c. 48), ss. 1, 14(2) (as amended by S.I. 2022/1296, regs. 1(2), 2(2); (28.2.2023) by 2023 c. 4, s. 1(2)(b), 3(3); and (25.1.2024) by 2024 c. 2, ss. 1, 2(2))"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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