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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Magistrates’ Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No. 323) in consequence of the Children (Emergency Protection Orders) Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c.3) to:

  • prescribe that a resident magistrate or (in relation to an ex parte application under rule 2(5)(a) and rule 5) a lay magistrate may exercise the powers of a court of summary jurisdiction under rule 9 in relation to service of documents; and

  • amend Form C20 (Emergency Protection Order) to reflect that there is no longer a prohibition on the court hearing an application to discharge an emergency protection order for 72 hours after the order is made.