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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-23A/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-23A/rule-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/23A/rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reference of devolution issue to Court of Appeal",
  "text": "(1) The court may, of its own motion at any stage in the proceedings or on application by a party before or at the trial or hearing thereof, make an order in Form 109D referring a devolution issue to the Court of Appeal in accordance with paragraph 7 of Schedule 10.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in Order 14, Rule 1, no order under this Rule shall be made except by [ the judge] personally.\n(3) An order referring a devolution issue to the Court of Appeal shall set out in a schedule the devolution issue, which shall be settled by [ the judge] after such directions to the parties as he may think desirable as to its manner and form.\n(4) The chief clerk shall send the order to the Master (Queen’s Bench and Appeals).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/23A/rule/5",
    "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."
}