{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/435",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "27th February 2003",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order power to amend conferred (1.9.2012) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), ss. 90(2)(c), 111(3); S.R. 2012/214, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order: transfer of functions (1.4.2015) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), s. 1(2)(b)(3)(4), 12(1) (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3)); S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order: functions transferred from Lord Chancellor to the Department of Justice (except for para. 17 of Sch. 1) (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 53 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/435/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:15.388759+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."
}