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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-costs-in-criminal-cases-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/363",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Costs in Criminal Cases) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-costs-in-criminal-cases-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nMade 3rd September 2008\nComing into operation 1st October 2008\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and section 7 of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 after consultation with the Lord Chancellor and with the agreement of the Lord Chief Justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26): Article 13 was amended by paragraph 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 10 (N.I.): section 7 was amended by rule 48 of S.R. 1979 No. 90."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/363/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}