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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/391",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Commission” means the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission established under Article 3 of the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“the principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/435 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O (N.I.) 1965 No. 217; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1974 No. 126, S.R. 1988 No. 86 and S.R. 2010 No. 93"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/391/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:23.961101+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."
}