{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/62",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Domestic Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "Rule 1(2) shall be amended by inserting—\n(a) after paragraph (aa) the following—\n“(aaa) “the Order of 1998” means the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;”;\n(b) after paragraph (c) the following—\n“(d) “first class post” means first class post which has been pre-paid or in respect of which pre-payment is not required.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1071 (N.I. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/62/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:08.174326+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."
}