{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-39.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1999/2789",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1999",
  "path": "article/39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "General supplementary provisions",
  "text": "(1) Rules of court may make such provision as appears to the authority making them to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Order (and nothing in this Order shall be taken to affect the generality of any statutory provision conferring power to make such rules).\n(2) For the purposes of this Order the age of a person shall be taken to be that which it appears to the court to be after considering any available evidence.\n(3) Paragraph (2) is subject to Article 21(5).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 39(3) inserted (14.1.2015) by Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 2), ss. 24(8), 28(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1999/2789/article/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:42.138929+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."
}