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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2018/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Court Of Judicature, Northern Ireland\nCrown Court\nMade 29th January 2018\nLaid before Parliament 1st February 2018\nComing into operation in accordance with Rule 1\nThe Crown Court Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1) and 53A of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 and regulation 61 of the Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c.23, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by paragraphs 26 and 28 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4); paragraph 6 of Schedule 17 to, and paragraphs 14 and 26 of Schedule 18 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976); and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c.13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/730."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/24/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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