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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1979/90",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules but is intended to indicate their general purport.)\nThe Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 provides for the establishment of a new court, the Crown Court in Northern Ireland, to conduct criminal trials on indictment and in that respect to exercise jurisdiction formerly vested in the High Court and County Court. The Rules regulate the procedure and practice of the Crown Court with regard to the matters specified in the Rules and also supersede the Indictments Rules made under the Indictments Act (Northern Ireland) 1945.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1979/90/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:01:57.370490+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."
}