{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/period-products-free-provision-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-9.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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“department” means a Northern Ireland department;\n“the Executive” means the Executive Committee of the Assembly, established under section 20 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;\n“further education premises” means premises occupied by an institution of further education;\n“higher education institution” means a body described in Article 3(2)(a) of the Higher Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;\n“higher education premises” means premises occupied by a higher education institution;\n“hospital premises” means premises occupied by a hospital within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“institution of further education” has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n“public service body” means a body—\n(a) constituted by or under a statutory provision; and\n(b) having functions that consist of or include providing public services or otherwise serving the public interest,\nand also includes a body falling within section 2(2)(b), (c) or (d) which is not constituted by or under a statutory provision;\n“school” has the meaning given in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;\n“school premises” means premises occupied by a school;\n“specified public service body” means a public service body specified in regulations made under section 2;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in operation at 13.5.2022, see s. 10(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/25/section/9",
    "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."
}