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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/226",
  "legislation_title": "Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "18th February 1981",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2021/716, Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3 (as amended by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(b)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order applied (with mods.) (30.10.2006) by Traffic Management (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1964 (N.I. 14)), arts. 1(3), 15(5); S.R. 2006/347, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) by Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23)), art. 35(b) (as substituted (prosp.) by Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 10), ss. 38(1), 41, Sch. 4 para. 1(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 35 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/226/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:20.705084+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."
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