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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-costs-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/262",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE\nMade 20th May 1997\nTo be laid before Parliament\nComing into operation 29th June 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General and with the approval of the Treasury and having had regard to the principle of allowing fair remuneration according to the work reasonably undertaken and properly done, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)"
    },
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      "text": "S.I. 1982/159"
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  "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."
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