{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2006/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/499",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SUPREME COURT, NORTHERN IRELAND\nPROCEDURE\nMade 5th December 2006\nTo be laid before Parliament\nComing into operation 8th January 2007\nThe Crown Court Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 52(1) and 53A of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, Article 80A(7) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, section 49 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and section 20 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 23 to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I.12). Article 80A was inserted by Article 31 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1247 (N.I.13)) as amended by Article 24 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1965 (N.I.15))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2003 c. 44, as modified in its application to Northern Ireland by section 50 of that Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2004 c. 28, as modified in its application to Northern Ireland by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to that Act"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/499/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."
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