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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-debt-relief-act-northern-ireland-2010-consequential-amendments-order-northern-ireland-2016/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780337999451",
  "legislation_title": "The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Magistrates’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964",
  "text": "In section 6 (persons disqualified for acting as justices) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964—\n(a) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3ZA) A person in relation to whom a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies shall not be capable of being appointed a justice of the peace.”;\n(b) in subsection (3A) after “bankruptcy restrictions order” insert “or who is subject to a debt relief restrictions order”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 21 (N.I.) as amended by S.R. 2015 No.159, paragraph 2 of the Schedule"
    }
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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."
}