{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-2003-order-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-northern-ireland-2015/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/194",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice (2003 Order) (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-2003-order-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice (2003 Order) (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015.\n(2) In this Order—\n“advice”, “assistance” and “legal aid” have the respective meanings given by Article 27 of the 1981 Order;\n“assistance by way of representation” has the meaning given by Article 5(1) of the 1981 Order;\n“the Department” means the Department of Justice;\n“exceptional legal aid” has the meaning given by Article 10A of the 1981 Order;\n“the 1981 Order” means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n“the 2003 Order” means the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/194/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:02.684922+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."
}