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  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the offices of justice of the peace, resident magistrate and clerk of petty sessions, the jurisdiction of, and the practice and procedure before, magistrates' courts, and to matters connected therewith.\n[7th July 1964]",
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