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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/279",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Crown Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 30th June 2003.\n(2) In these Rules, “the principal Rules” shall mean the Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979, and a reference to a rule or a Form by number means the rule or Form so numbered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 90; to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 1996 No. 71 and S.R. 2003 No. 71"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/279/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:29.231565+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."
}