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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/428",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Warrants",
  "text": "(1) Rule 14 shall be amended in accordance with this Rule.\n(2) In paragraph (1) for the words “paragraph (2)” substitute the words “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”;\n(3) After paragraph (2) insert the following new paragraph (2A)—\n“(2A) A warrant issued under the Road Traffic Fixed Penalties (Enforcement of Fines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 shall be signed by a resident magistrate or justice of the peace but shall not in any case be signed by the clerk of petty sessions.”;\n(4) After paragraph (5) insert the following new paragraph—\n“(6) Where—\n(a) a warrant for the arrest of a defendant is issued under Regulation 4(2)(b) or 5(5) of the Road Traffic Fixed Penalties (Enforcement of Fines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997; and\n(b) the court before which the defendant is brought is not acting for the same petty sessions district as the court in which the sum is registered as a fine;\nthe clerk of petty sessions for the court before which the defendant is brought shall forward a copy of any order made by that court to the clerk of petty sessions for the court in which the sum is registered as a fine.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/428/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:06.722385+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."
}