{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-25/chapter-2/rule-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-25/chapter-2/rule-17.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/25/chapter/2/rule/17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Hearing by [ district judge]",
  "text": "Where by reason of death or unavoidable absence the [ district judge] is not present at the hearing of any action to which this Part applies the chief clerk or other officer of the court present shall open and adjourn or as the case may be, adjourn the hearing to such day as he thinks convenient.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "To be construed as such by S.R. 1991 No. 230 with effect from 28.06.91"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/25/chapter/2/rule/17",
    "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."
}