{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/129",
  "legislation_title": "County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COUNTY COURTS\nMade 16th March 1999\nComing into operation 12th April 1999\nWe, the County Court Rules Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor under Article 46 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, in exercise of the powers conferred on us by Article 47 of that Order, Articles 81(5) and 81A(11) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, and all other powers enabling us in that behalf, hereby make the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12); to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1995/757 (N.I. 3) and S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/129/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}