{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-northern-ireland-order-1980/article-56.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/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Affidavits",
  "text": "(1) An affidavit to be used in a county court may be sworn before the judge, a circuit registrar, a commissioner for oaths, a justice of the peace or any officer of the court designated for the purpose by the Lord Chief Justice\n(2) An affidavit sworn before a judge or any officer may be sworn without payment of any fee.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 56(1) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para. 58; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1980/397/article/56",
    "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."
}