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  "legislation": "nidsr/2015/9780337995750",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Disclosure of Information) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-legal-aid-disclosure-of-information-rules-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“criminal aid certificate” and “free legal aid” have the respective meanings given under Part 3 of the Order;\n“the Department” means the Department of Justice;\n“the Director” means the Director of Legal Aid Casework designated by the Department under section 2 of the Legal Aid and Coroners’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014;\n“the Order” means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 c. 11 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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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."
}