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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2004/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/299",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2004",
  "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) 2004 and subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) shall come into operation on 26th July 2004.\n(2) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (5)(a) of Rule 2 below shall come into operation on the same day as section 46 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 comes into force.\n(3) Paragraphs (3) and (5)(b) of Rule 2 below shall come into operation on the same day as Article 9 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 comes into operation.\n(4) Paragraphs (4) and (5)(c) of Rule 2 below shall come into operation on the same day as Article 10 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 comes into operation.\n(5) In these Rules, a reference to a Rule, a Schedule or a Form by number means the Rule, Schedule or Form so numbered in the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1247 (N.I. 33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 225; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2004 No. 204 and S.R. 2003 No. 477"
    }
  ],
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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."
}