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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Devolution Issues) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
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  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Devolution Issues) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 17th January 2000.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 17.1.2000, see art. 1"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/489/article/1",
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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."
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