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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Devolution Issues) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the appropriate Minister or department” means—\n(a) the First Minister and Deputy First Minister acting jointly; or\n(b) where they, acting jointly, determine under paragraph 36 of Schedule 10 that any power conferred on them by that Schedule in relation to any specified proceedings may be exercised by a specified Minister or Northern Ireland department, that Minister or Department; and for this purpose “specified” means specified in a determination under that paragraph;\n“devolution issue” means a devolution issue within the meaning of Schedule 10;\n“the Judicial Committee” means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;\n“Schedule 10” means Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998.\n(2) In these rules a reference to a form by number is a reference to the form of that number in the Schedule.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 17.1.2000, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/489/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:12.438094+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."
}