{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-rules-1968/rule-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-rules-1968/rule-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisro/1968/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Rules 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-rules-1968",
  "path": "rule/26",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Certification of shorthand notes",
  "text": "(1) A shorthand writer shall sign any shorthand notes taken by him and certify such notes to be the complete and correct shorthand notes taken at the trial or proceedings to which they relate.\n(2) A shorthand writer shall retain any shorthand notes taken by him until he forwards them to the Registrar when directed to do so or until he destroys them on a direction in writing from the Registrar.\n(3) No direction for the destruction of any such shorthand notes shall be given unless the consent of the Minister has first been obtained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisro/1968/218/rule/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T13:33:01.429812+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."
}