{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-executive-formation-etc-act-2022/section-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exercise of departmental functions: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) Sections 3 and 4 have effect despite anything in the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)) or any other enactment or rule of law that would prevent a senior officer of a Northern Ireland department from exercising departmental functions in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers.\n(2) No inference is to be drawn from sections 3 and 4 or this section as to whether or not a senior officer of a Northern Ireland department would otherwise have been prevented from exercising departmental functions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}