{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998/schedule-4A/paragraph-11F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998/schedule-4A/paragraph-11F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/47",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/4A/paragraph/11F",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11F",
  "heading": "Eligibility to become relevant Minister or deputy Minister",
  "text": "(1) The holding of office as First Minister or deputy First Minister shall not prevent a person being elected to hold—\n(a) the relevant Ministerial office; or\n(b) the deputy Ministerial office.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the Assembly has resolved under section 30(2) that a political party does not enjoy its confidence; and\n(b) the party's period of exclusion under that provision has not come to an end,\nno member of that party may be nominated under paragraph 11E(4)(b).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In this paragraph, a reference to a period of exclusion ... is, in the case of a period of exclusion ... which has been extended, a reference to that period as extended.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4A inserted (11.3.2009) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 17, 31, Sch. 2 (as amended (8.5.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c. 53), ss. 8, 9, 27, Sch. 5 paras. 8-14, Sch. 6 (with s. 1(3)); S.I. 2007/1397, art. 2 (which amending Act was itself amended (27.3.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007 (c. 4), s. 1(1)) and as amended (11.3.2009) by Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (c. 6), ss. 44, 53, Sch. 5 paras. 2, 3; S.I. 2009/446, art. 3); S.I. 2009/448, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4A para. 11F(3) omitted (1.4.2011) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Act 2003 (Cessation of Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/978), arts. 1(2), 5(k)(v)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4A para. 11F(4) omitted (1.4.2011) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Act 2003 (Cessation of Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/978), arts. 1(2), 5(k)(v)(bb)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/47/schedule/4A/paragraph/11F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:12.253813+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."
}