{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2025/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2025/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/171",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) “the principal Rules” means the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981; and\n(b) a reference to an Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form is a reference to that Order, Rule, paragraph, Appendix or Form so numbered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in operation at 26.11.2025, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1981 No. 225, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2017 No. 19"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/171/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:25:02.066422+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."
}