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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-21",
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  "legislation": "nia/2022/17",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the Department” means the Department of Justice;\n“interim stalking protection order” has the meaning given in section 11(1);\n“stalking protection order” has the meaning given in section 7(1);\n“UK national” means an individual who is—\n(a) a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen,\n(b) a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject, or\n(c) a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in operation at 27.4.2022, see s. 22(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/17/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:22.116321+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."
}