{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-interest-on-awards-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-interest-on-awards-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/320",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations (Interest on Awards) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-interest-on-awards-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interest on awards",
  "text": "(1) Where, at any time after 4th August 1997 a tribunal makes an award under the Order—\n(a) it may, subject to and in accordance with this Order, include interest on any sums so awarded; and\n(b) it shall consider whether to do so, without the need for any application by a party in the proceedings.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the tribunal from making an award or decision, with regard to interest, in terms which have been agreed between the parties.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 4.8.1997, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/320",
      "affecting_title": "Race Relations (Interest on Awards) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/320/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:10.519671+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."
}