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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-declarations-of-parentage-rules-northern-ireland-2002/article-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Intervention by the Attorney General",
  "text": "The clerk of petty sessions shall send a copy of the application and every document accompanying it and of any answer to the Crown Solicitor if he has notified the court that the Attorney General wishes to intervene in the proceedings.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 9 in operation at 20.5.2002, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/190",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Declarations of Parentage) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/158",
      "affecting_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Declarations of Parentage) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/158/article/9",
    "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."
}