{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-52/chapter-6/rule-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-52/chapter-6/rule-20.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/52/chapter/6/rule/20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Proceedings",
  "text": "The court before whom a person is brought following his arrest may—\n(a) determine whether the facts and the circumstances which led to the arrest amounted to disobedience of the injunction, or\n(b) adjourn the proceedings and, where such an order is made, the arrested person shall be released and—\n(i) may be dealt with within 14 days of the day on which he was arrested; and\n(ii) be given not less than 2 days’ notice of the adjourned hearing.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/52/chapter/6/rule/20",
    "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."
}