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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-23A/rule-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
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  "path": "part/23A/rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the appropriate Minister or department” means—\n(a) the First Minister and the deputy First Minister acting jointly; or\n(b) where they, acting jointly, determine under paragraph 36 of Schedule 10 that any power conferred on them by that Schedule in relation to any specified proceedings may be exercised by a specified Minister or Northern Ireland department, that Minister or department; and for this purpose “specified” means specified in a determination under that paragraph;\n“devolution issue” has the same meaning as in Schedule 10;\n“the Judicial Committee” means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;\n“originating process” means a civil bill, petition, notice of application or any other method of commencing proceedings in a county court;\n“Schedule 10” means Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/23A/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+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."
}