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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/resettlement-services-act-northern-ireland-1971/section-1",
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  "legislation": "apni/1971/10",
  "legislation_title": "Resettlement Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/resettlement-services-act-northern-ireland-1971",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "General functions of Ministry of Development as to resettlement.",
  "text": "In the interests of the development of Northern Ireland the Ministry of Development may do such things as appear to that Ministry to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of encouraging or assisting the transfer within Northern Ireland, and the resettlement, of persons and of households, businesses and other establishments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1971/10/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:21.285243+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."
}