{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-minimum-period-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2944",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Minimum Period) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-minimum-period-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly: Minimum Period",
  "text": "(1) The minimum period for the purpose of section 31(6) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (dates of elections and dissolutions) is 26 days.\n(2) Rule 2 of the Assembly Elections Rules applies when computing the period mentioned in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Assembly Elections Rules are contained in Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2599). That Schedule was substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 2009/256."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1080",
      "affecting_title": "The Northern Ireland Assembly (Minimum Period) (Amendment) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2944/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:02.934885+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."
}