{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Key definitions",
  "text": "In this Act—\n(a) “period products” means manufactured articles the purpose of which is to absorb or collect menstrual flow;\n(b) types of period products include tampons, sanitary towels and articles which are reusable;\n(c) “person”, in the context of a reference to a person who needs to use period products, means a person who menstruates (whether that person is a woman, girl or other person);\n(d) references to such a person’s “needs” are references to that person’s needs for period products arising from menstruation by that person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in operation at 13.5.2022, see s. 10(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/25/section/8",
    "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."
}