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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-devolution-issues-rules-northern-ireland-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Devolution Issues) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
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  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 10th December 1999\nComing into operation 17th January 2000\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, paragraph 38 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, on the advice of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 47"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/489/introduction",
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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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