{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/23",
  "legislation_title": "Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicature-northern-ireland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Restrictions on practice.",
  "text": "(1) . . . A statutory officer shall not either directly or indirectly practise as a barrister or solicitor or as an agent for a solicitor.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 73 substituted by S.R. 1982/300, art. 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 73(2) and word repealed (1.5.2004) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 103(6), 109(3), 110(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2004/1104, art. 3(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/23/section/73",
    "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."
}