{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-banning-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2011/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-banning-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2011/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Banning Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-banning-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Service of orders",
  "text": "(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after:\n(a) the making of a banning order under section 41 of the 2011 Act;\n(b) the variation of a banning order under section 46 of the 2011 Act; or\n(c) the termination of a banning under section 47 of the 2011 Act,\nthe clerk of petty sessions shall serve a copy of that order on the parties set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:\n(a) P;\n(b) the Chief Constable;\n(c) the prosecution;\n(d) the police station (addressed to the officer responsible for the police station) at which P is to report under section 42(3) of the 2011 Act;\n(e) (in a case where P is detained in legal custody) the person in whose custody P is detained; and\n(f) any prescribed person.\n(3) An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:\n(a) P,\n(i) if present in court, in person if practicable; or\n(ii) otherwise by sending it by ordinary first class post to P at his last known address (in which case the order shall be deemed to have been received by him in the ordinary course of post unless P proves that he did not receive it); and\n(b) all other parties by ordinary first class post.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4 in operation at 1.1.2012, see rule 1 and S.R. 2011/370, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/417/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:18:37.349635+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."
}