{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/71",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SUPREME COURT, NORTHERN IRELAND\nCROWN COURT\nTo be laid before Parliament\nMade 5th March 1996\nComing into operation 8th April 1996\nWe, the Crown Court Rules Committee in exercise of the powers conferred upon us by section 52(1) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, Articles 81(5) and 81A(11) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and of all other powers enabling us in that behalf, hereby with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor make the following Rules:—",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12); to which the most recent amendments were made by S.I. 1995/757 (N.I. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/71/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}