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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/17",
  "legislation_title": "County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997.\n(2) In these Rules “the principal Rules” means the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981.\n(3) In these Rules a reference to an Order or Rule is a reference to that Order or Rule as numbered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1981 No. 225 most recently amended by S.R. 1991 No. 230, S.R. 1992 No. 439, S.R. 1995 No. 151, S.R. 1995 No. 282 and S.R. 1995 No. 471"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/17/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:15.502583+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."
}