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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2983",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.\n(2) This Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister of Finance and Personnel may by order appoint.\n(3) An order under paragraph (2) may contain such transitional provisions as appear to the Minister of Finance and Personnel to be appropriate; and subject to any such transitional provision, no provision of this Order shall apply in relation to any proceedings begun before the coming into operation of that provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SI 1999/663"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "partly exercised SR 1999/256; 339"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/2983/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:12.192764+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."
}