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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/rule-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/rule-63.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": "rule/63",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the appropriate Minister or department” means—\n(a)the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister acting jointly; or\n(b)where they, acting jointly, determine under paragraph 36 of Schedule 10 that any power conferred on them by that Schedule in relation to any specified proceedings may be exercised by a specified Minister or Northern Ireland department, that Minister or department; and for this purpose “specified” means specified in a determination under that paragraph;\n“devolution issue” means a devolution issue within the meaning of Schedule 10;\n“the Judicial Committee” means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;\n“Schedule 10” means Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Renumbered by S.R. 2000 No. 227 with effect from 21.08.00."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 47"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1979/90/rule/63",
    "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."
}