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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/126",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the principal Rules” means the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984;\n“the 1969 Rules” means the Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1969;\n“the 1995 Order” means the Children’s Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in operation at 8.4.1996, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 225; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 1989 No. 422"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1969 No. 221; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Rules"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/757 (N.I. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/126/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:49.690394+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."
}