{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-act-1973-repealed-2121999/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-act-1973-repealed-2121999/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/17",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973 (repealed 2.12.1999)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-act-1973-repealed-2121999",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a Northern Ireland Assembly which shall consist of 90 members.\n(2) Those members shall be returned for the constituencies in Northern Ireland which would return members to the Parliament of the United Kingdom if a general election were held at the passing of this Act, and the number of members returned by each constituency shall be that specified for the constituency in the second column of the Schedule to this Act.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The proceedings of the Assembly shall not be invalid because of any vacancy in their membership.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (7.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/2992, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(3), (5), (6) repealed by Northern Ireland Act 1982 (c. 38, SIF 29:3), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to amend s. 1(1) conferred by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 28(5)(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 1(2) extended by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 28(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/17/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:47.699854+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."
}