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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/505",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Supreme Court, Northern Ireland\nProcedure\nMade 18th December 2008\nComing into operation 2nd February 2009\nTo be laid before Parliament\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 39(1) of the Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and Article 14 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 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 paragraphs 26 and 28 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1500 (N.I. 9)"
    }
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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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