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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-st-andrews-agreement-act-2006/section-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/53",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-st-andrews-agreement-act-2006",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Power of Executive Committee to call for witnesses and documents",
  "text": "After section 28B of the 1998 Act insert—\n“Executive Committee: further provisions\nPower of Executive Committee to call for witnesses and documents\n28C Section 44 applies to the Executive Committee as it applies to the Assembly, but as if—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “any person” there were substituted “ a senior officer of a Northern Ireland department (within the meaning given by Article 2(3) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999) ”;\n(b) at the end of that subsection there were inserted “ but only in so far as they are matters in relation to which the Executive Committee's functions under section 20(3) or (4) are exercisable ”;\n(c) subsection (6) were omitted; and\n(d) in subsection (7), for “The Presiding Officer” there were substituted “ The First Minister and the deputy First Minister acting jointly ”.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 (ss. 5-19) in force at 8.5.2007, see s. 2(2), 27(4)(5) (as amended by 2007 c. 4, s. 1); S.I. 2007/1397, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/53/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:12.155621+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."
}