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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-children-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-children-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/7",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-children-rules-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Preliminary investigations or inquiries",
  "text": "Nothing in these Rules shall affect the provisions of Part V of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 relating to the preliminary investigation or preliminary inquiry of an indictable offence and, accordingly, Rules 25-42 and Rule 51(2) of the principal Rules shall apply to such investigation or, as the case may be, to such inquiry conducted by a youth court.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 13 in operation at 31.1.1999, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/7/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:37.458719+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."
}