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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-northern-ireland-order-1995-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/63",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-northern-ireland-order-1995-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to—\n(a) allow for the postal service of summonses (rule 2);\n(b) relax, for specified purposes, the requirements for confidentiality in respect of the report of a guardian ad litem (rule 3); and\n(c) make provision where the court includes an exclusion requirement in an interim care order or an emergency protection order (rules 4 to 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/63/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:07.406439+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."
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