{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2000/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2000/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/279",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984, in consequence of the Human Rights Act 1998, so as to provide that a finding by a county court on appeal that the making of the order appealed against has infringed the appellant’s rights under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights shall be certified on the notice of appeal and recorded in the Order Book.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/279/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:36.311092+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."
}