{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/59",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nMade 1st March 2011\nComing into operation 25th March 2011\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, after consultation with the Department of Justice and with the agreement of the Lord Chief Justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1981/1675 (N.I.26); Article 13 was amended by paragraph 133 of Part 2 of Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I.2010 No.976); and paragraph 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
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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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