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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-declarations-of-parentage-rules-northern-ireland-2002/article-11",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/158",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-declarations-of-parentage-rules-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Parties",
  "text": "On considering a request under rule 10(3), the court shall—\n(a) grant the application without a hearing or representations, whereupon the clerk of petty sessions shall given written notification of that decision to the parties, the person making the request and the Crown Solicitor; or\n(b) order that a date be fixed for consideration of the request, whereupon the clerk of petty sessions shall give notice in writing of the date so fixed to the parties, the person making the request and the Crown Solicitor.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 11 in operation at 20.5.2002, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/158",
      "affecting_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/190",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Declarations of Parentage) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/158/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:46.426854+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."
}