{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sign-language-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sign-language-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2026/7",
  "legislation_title": "Sign Language Act (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sign-language-act-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Organisations to be listed in regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Department for Communities must by regulations list which public bodies are prescribed organisations for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) Before making regulations under this section, the Department must consult each of the public bodies which it proposes should be listed, added or removed (as the case may be) as prescribed organisations.\n(3) However—\n(a) all the Northern Ireland departments (including the Department for Communities) are always to be included as prescribed organisations in regulations under this section, and\n(b) none of them ever needs to be consulted before such regulations are made.\n(4) A reference in this section to public bodies includes persons or groups exercising functions of a public character.\n(5) Regulations under this section may not be made unless a draft of them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 15(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4 in operation at 23.9.2026 by S.R. 2026/162, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2026/7/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:57.659830+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."
}