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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/203",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Domestic Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nMade 18th July 2013\nComing into operation 2nd September 2013\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and Article 34(11) of the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 after consultation with the Department of Justice and with the agreement of the Lord Chief Justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26). Article 13 was amended by paragraph 133 of Schedule 18 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976) and paragraph 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1071 (N.I. 6). Article 34 was amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/203/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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