{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1980/397",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Directions as to holding of courts",
  "text": "TheLord Chief Justice may give directions as to—\n(a) the places at which county courts are to be held;\n(b) the number of ordinary sittings of county courts which are to be held each year;\n(c) the ordinary hours of sitting of county courts;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) the cancellation of any sitting of a county court for which provision has been made under this Order where there is no, or insufficient, business to be transacted at that sitting; and\n(f) such other incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary matters as appear to theLord Chief Justice to be necessary or proper.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4 substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para. 51; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 4(d) repealed (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 80(3), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(f) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para. 51; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1980/397/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:38.739072+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."
}