{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-statistics-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Statistics Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-statistics-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Official Statistics - wholly Northern Ireland devolved official statistics",
  "text": "To the extent that they are not otherwise official statistics by virtue of section 6 (1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the wholly Northern Ireland devolved statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified as official statistics for the purposes of section 6 (1)(b) of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 1.4.2012, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Northern Ireland devolved statistics” is defined in section 66 of the 2007 Statistics and Registration Act."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/2/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:18:17.041022+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."
}