{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2022/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2022/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2022/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and transitional provisions",
  "text": "These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on the same day as section 1 of the Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1 not in operation at made date, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2022 c.4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/218/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:33:43.384079+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."
}