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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nProcedure\nMade 1st March 2016\nComing into operation in accordance with Rule 1\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes and the Department of Justice, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, allows the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and section 94 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.",
  "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 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4); paragraph 133 of Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976); and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2015 c.9 (N.I.)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/93/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."
}