{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-miscellaneous-provisions-act-2014/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-miscellaneous-provisions-act-2014/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/13",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-miscellaneous-provisions-act-2014",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Members of the Dàil Èireann to be disqualified for membership of Assembly",
  "text": "(1) In section 1(1) of the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (disqualification of holders of certain offices etc), before paragraph (e) insert—\n“(db) is a member of the Dàil Èireann (House of Representatives of Ireland);”.\n(2) After section 1A of that Act (as inserted by section 3) insert—\n“Members of the Dàil Èireann\n1B A person returned at an election as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly is not disqualified under section 1(1)(db) at any time in the period of 8 days beginning with the day the person is so returned.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 5.5.2016 unless the Northern Ireland Assembly is dissolved at an earlier date, see ss. 7, 28(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 29.3.2016, being the first day after this Act is passed on which the Northern Ireland Assembly is dissolved, see s. 28(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/13/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:42.519084+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."
}