{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-7",
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  "legislation": "nia/2022/25",
  "legislation_title": "Period Products (Free Provision) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duty to publish information",
  "text": "(1) Each department must publish information about the locations where free period products are available in such ways as they think appropriate to bring that information to the attention of persons who need to use period products or may need to use period products in the future.\n(2) Each department must do so—\n(a) within one year of making regulations under section 2; and\n(b) on at least an annual basis thereafter.\n(3) A department may publish the information specified in subsection (1) jointly with another department.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in operation at 12.5.2024, see s. 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/25/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:15.741695+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."
}