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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-limitation-periods-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1985/754",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Limitation Periods (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-limitation-periods-northern-ireland-order-1985",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Foreign judgements on limitation points",
  "text": "Where a court in any country outside Northern Ireland has determined any matter wholly or partly by reference to the law of that or any other country (including Northern Ireland) relating to limitation, then, for the purposes of the law relating to the effect to be given in Northern Ireland to that determination, that court shall, to the extent that it has so determined the matter, be deemed to have determined it on its merits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1985/754/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:54.416923+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."
}