{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-services-remuneration-order-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-services-remuneration-order-northern-ireland-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/198",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Services (Remuneration) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-services-remuneration-order-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Access To Justice\nMade 24th March 2016\nComing into operation 15th April 2016\nThe Department of Justice makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 23(3), 24(3) and (5) and 47 of the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003, and now vested in it.\nIn accordance with Article 47(2)(a) of the 2003 Order, the Department has consulted with the Lord Chief Justice, the Law Society, the General Council of the Bar of Northern Ireland and the Director of Public Prosecutions.\nIn accordance with Article 47(1) of the 2003 Order, the Department has had regard to the matters specified in that provision.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/435 (N.I. 10). Articles 23, 24 and 47 of the 2003 Order were amended by section 6 of, and paragraph 6(25), (26) and (38) of Schedule 2 to, the Legal Aid and Coroners’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 – 2014 c. 11 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/976"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/198/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:41.635339+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."
}