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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2018/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nProcedure\nMade 29th January 2018\nLaid before Parliament 1st February 2018\nComing into operation in accordance with Rule 1\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 and regulation 61 of the Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017.",
  "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 Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976); paragraph 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c.13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2017/730"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/25/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."
}