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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-4B.13",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4B.13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4B.13",
  "heading": "Witnessing of documents",
  "text": "A document shall be sufficiently attested for the purposes of this Part of these rules if it is witnessed by one of the following persons –\n(a) if it is executed in Northern Ireland, the guardian ad litem, a justice of the peace, any officer of the Supreme Court appointed by the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with section 112 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978;\n(b) if it is executed elsewhere, any person specified in rule 4A.7(2), (3) or (4), according to the country in which it is executed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/75/schedule/1/paragraph/4B.13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:04:36.365342+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."
}