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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/529",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1998.\n(2) In these Rules, the “principal Rules” means the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984 and a reference to a Rule, Form or Schedule by number means the Rule, Form or Schedule so numbered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 225"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/529/article/1",
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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."
}