# The Magistrates’ Courts (Banning Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011, Article 4: Service of orders

Extent: N.I.

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after:
(a) the making of a banning order under section 41 of the 2011 Act;
(b) the variation of a banning order under section 46 of the 2011 Act; or
(c) the termination of a banning under section 47 of the 2011 Act,
the clerk of petty sessions shall serve a copy of that order on the parties set out in paragraph (2).
(2) An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:
(a) P;
(b) the Chief Constable;
(c) the prosecution;
(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;
(e) (in a case where P is detained in legal custody) the person in whose custody P is detained; and
(f) any prescribed person.
(3) An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:
(a) P,
(i) if present in court, in person if practicable; or
(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
(b) all other parties by ordinary first class post.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/417/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-banning-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2011/article-4
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