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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-constitution-act-1973/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/36",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-constitution-act-1973",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision for the government of Northern Ireland.\n[18th July 1973]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39, SIF 67A), s. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27, SIF 113:1), s. 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act amended (1.8.1991) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37, SIF 83:1), s. 48(2)(with ss. 39(3), 43(2)); S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act excluded by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), ss. 3(8), 153(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act amended (1.9.1992) by Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48, SIF 20), s. 23(4), (with s. 9(2)); S.I. 1992/1938, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act amended (25.10.1993) by 1993 c. 39, s. 63(2), S.I. 1993/2632, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act amended (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48. ss. 187(1); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 1.1.1974 see ss. 2, 43(5)."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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