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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2018/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules “the principal Rules” means the Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984, and a reference to a rule is a reference to that rule so numbered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No.225, to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2014 No. 221 and S.R. 2016 No. 304."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/25/article/2",
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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."
}