{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/23",
  "legislation_title": "Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The Court of Judicature.",
  "text": "There shall be a Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Court of Judicature”) which shall consist of—\n(a) Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the High Court”);\n(b) Her Majesty’s Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Court of Appeal”); and\n(c) Her Majesty’s Crown Court in Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Crown Court”),\nwith such jurisdiction as is respectively conferred on those courts by this Act or by any other statutory provision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/23/section/1",
    "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."
}