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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-declarations-of-parentage-rules-northern-ireland-2002/article-8",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/158",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002",
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  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Intervention by the Attorney General",
  "text": "The Attorney General, in deciding whether it is necessary or expedient to intervene in the proceedings may have a search made for and may inspect and obtain a copy of any document filed in the court offices which relates to any other family proceedings referred to in the proceedings.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 8 in operation at 20.5.2002, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "nisr/2002/158",
      "affecting_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/158/article/8",
    "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."
}