{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-northern-ireland-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/300",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend—\nthe Water Supplies and Sewerage (Northern Ireland) County Court Rules 1955 (S.R.& O. 1955 No. 56);\nthe County Court (Summoning of Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings and Appeals) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1966 (S.R.& O. 1966 No. 257); and\nthe County Court (Affidavit of Service) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1972 (S.R. 1972 No. 280)\nto take account of Part 1 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 which creates a single jurisdiction for county courts and magistrates’ courts whereby the jurisdiction and powers of those courts are exercisable throughout the whole of Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/300/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:55:23.818167+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."
}