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  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
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  "text": "So far as may be appropriate in consequence of the provision made by section 10 or by or by virtue of this Schedule—\n(a) references in any enactment or instrument to a justice of the peace (or to a justice of the peace other than a resident magistrate) may be construed as being or including a reference to a lay magistrate, and\n(b) references in any enactment or instrument to a magistrates’ court may be construed as a reference to a resident magistrate or a court of summary jurisdiction.",
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