{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservation-of-documents-historical-institutions-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservation-of-documents-historical-institutions-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/26",
  "legislation_title": "Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservation-of-documents-historical-institutions-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“body” includes an unincorporated body of persons;\n“child” means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years;\n“document” means anything in which information is recorded in any form;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;\n“public body” means a body established by or under any statutory provision;\n“regulations” means regulations made by the Department of Health;\n“relative” means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether by blood (including half-blood), marriage or civil partnership;\n“rules of court” includes magistrates’ court rules (as well as rules of court as defined in section 21(4) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954);\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given in section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\n“voluntary organisation” means a body (other than a public body) the activities of which are not carried on for profit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in operation at 13.5.2022, see s. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/26/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:14.963830+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."
}