{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-25",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2003/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Amendment of summons before it is served",
  "text": "In Article 20 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 26) (issue of summons to accused), after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(4A) Where a justice of the peace for any county court division is satisfied that a summons issued under paragraph (1) by him or another justice of the peace for the same county court division has not been served, he may, without a complaint being made to him, re-issue the summons extending the time for the appearance of the person summoned.” .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/1247/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:13.732375+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."
}