{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Reference of devolution issue to Court of Appeal",
  "text": "(1) Where a magistrates' court decides to refer a devolution issue to the Court of Appeal under paragraph 7 of Schedule 10, the court shall make an order so referring the issue.\n(2) An order under paragraph (1) shall be in Form 4 and the court may give directions to the parties as to the manner and form of the schedule to that order, but it shall be settled by the court.\n(3) The clerk of petty sessions shall send the order to the Master (Queen’s Bench and Appeals).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 17.1.2000, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/489/article/4",
    "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."
}