{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-executive-formation-etc-act-2022/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-executive-formation-etc-act-2022/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/48",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-executive-formation-etc-act-2022",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Extension of period for making Ministerial appointments ...",
  "text": "(1) The Northern Ireland Act 1998 has effect as if, during the current post-election period, for subsections (3A) to (3C) of section 16A (appointment of Ministers following an Assembly election) there were substituted—\n“(3A) In this section “the period for filling Ministerial offices” means the period beginning with 13 May 2022 and ending with 8 February 2024.”\n(2) In this section, “the current post-election period” means the period beginning with 5 May 2022 and ending with the day on which a poll for the election of an Assembly is next held.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (25.1.2024) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2024 (c. 2), ss. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 heading omitted (28.2.2023) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Act 2023 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(a), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 14(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/48/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:53:51.811707+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."
}