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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 27th March 1996\nComing into operation 8th April 1996\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and Articles 81(5) and 81A(11) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, on the advice of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12); to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.I. 1995/757 (N.I. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/126/introduction",
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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."
}