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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/23",
  "legislation_title": "Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In any statutory provision whether passed or made before, on or after the coming into operation of Part IV of this Act, for any reference or expression in the first column of the Table below there shall, in relation to Northern Ireland, be substituted the relevant reference or expression in the second column of the Table.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply where the context otherwise requires and in particular shall not apply in relation to a sentence imposed, or other things done, by a court before the coming into operation of Part IV of this Act or to any reference to records of any court.\nTable\nReference\nSubstituted reference\n1.\nCourt of gaol delivery or of oyer and terminer.\nThe Crown Court.\n2.\nCourt of assize, or assizes, where the context does not relate to civil jurisdiction.\nThe Crown Court\n3.\nCourt of assize, or assizes, where the context relates either to criminal or civil jurisdiction.\nThe Crown Court or the High Court or, as the case may be, the High Court and not the Crown Court.\n4.\nThe county court where the context relates to the jurisdiction of that court to try persons on indictment.\nThe Crown Court.\n5.\nJudge, justice or commissioner of assize, or judge acting during assizes.\nThe Crown Court or the High Court or both, according as the reference is to criminal jurisdiction or civil jurisdiction or to both.\n6.\nCounty court judge or recorder where the context relates to the jurisdiction of the county court to try persons on indictment.\nThe Crown Court.\n7.\nClerk of the Crown and peace where the context relates to the jurisdiction of the county court to try persons on indictment or to the criminal jurisdiction of courts of assize.\nThe appropriate officer of the Crown Court.\n8.\nOther officer in the county court service for Northern Ireland whose duties related exclusively to the criminal jurisdiction of courts of assize.\nThe appropriate officer of the Crown Court.\n9.\nClerk of the court where the court is the Crown Court.\nThe appropriate officer of the Crown Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2008/1216",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/23",
      "affecting_title": "Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "entry repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/12",
      "affecting_title": "Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/23/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:00.123548+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."
}