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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 22nd September 1997\nComing into operation 14th October 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Article 16(5) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/428/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."
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