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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-stormont-agreement-and-implementation-plan-act-2016/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/13",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-stormont-agreement-and-implementation-plan-act-2016",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Pledge of office by Ministers",
  "text": "In the pledge of office set out in Schedule 4 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, after paragraph (cd) insert—\n“(ce) to support the rule of law unequivocally in word and deed and to support all efforts to uphold it;\n(cf) to work collectively with the other members of the Executive Committee to achieve a society free of paramilitarism;\n(cg) to challenge all paramilitary activity and associated criminality;\n(ch) to call for, and to work together with the other members of the Executive Committee to achieve, the disbandment of all paramilitary organisations and their structures;\n(ci) to challenge paramilitary attempts to control communities;\n(cj) to support those who are determined to make the transition away from paramilitarism;\n(ck) to accept no authority, direction or control on my political activities other than my democratic mandate alongside my own personal and party judgment;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/13/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:19.552284+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."
}