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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2004/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2004/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/324",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Anti-social Behaviour Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Anti-social Behaviour Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on the same day as Article 3 of the Anti-social Behaviour (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 comes into operation.\n(2) In these Rules –\n(a) “the 2004 Order” means the Anti-social Behaviour (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 and expressions used in these Rules and in the 2004 Order have the same meaning as in the 2004 Order; and\n(b) a reference to a Form by number means the Form so numbered in the Schedule to these Rules or a Form to the like effect.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1 in operation at 25.8.2004, see Rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1988 (N.I. 12)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/324/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:48.025521+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."
}