{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-minimum-period-order-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-assembly-minimum-period-order-2010/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Northern Ireland\nMade 9th December 2010\nLaid before Parliament 14th December 2010\nComing into force 10th January 2011\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the power conferred by section 31(6) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.47; subsections (3) and (5) of section 31 were amended by section 1 of the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Act 2003 (c.3); subsection (1) of section 31 was amended, and subsection (2) substituted, by section 2 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to, the Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c.53)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2944/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}