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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-files-privileged-access-rules-northern-ireland-2016/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/123",
  "legislation_title": "The Court Files Privileged Access Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-files-privileged-access-rules-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons who may apply for court files",
  "text": "(1) An application for a court file held by the Office will be accepted from a person (an “applicant”) who, at the time of the application, is aged eighteen years or older and who meets any of the following eligibility criteria—\n(a) a person who appears to the Department to be—\n(i) a person who has sustained physical or psychological injury as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file;\n(ii) a person who has been bereaved as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file; or\n(iii) a person who has been seriously adversely affected, in a manner other than as described at (i) and (ii), as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file.\n(b) a solicitor acting on behalf of a person who meets any of the eligibility criteria set out at rule 3(1)(a).\n(c) an employee of a charity acting on behalf of a person who meets any of the eligibility criteria set out at rule 3(1)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/123/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:36.362811+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."
}