{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/324",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Domestic Proceedings) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "rule/10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Applications under the Order of 1998",
  "text": "(1) An application by way of complaint to a justice of the peace or clerk of petty sessions for an occupation order or a non-molestation order under the Order of 1998 shall be made in writing in Form F1.\n(2) An application in Form F1 shall be supported—\n(a) by a statement which is signed and is declared to be true; or\n(b) with the leave of the court, by oral evidence.\n(3) Any summons issued in consequence of such an application shall be prepared in triplicate in Form F2 and a copy shall be served (together with a copy of the written application referred to in paragraph (1) and any supporting statement referred to in paragraph (2)) on the respondent not less than two days prior to the date fixed for hearing.\n(4) The court may abridge the period specified in paragraph (3).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 10-13 substituted (29.3.1999) by Magistrates' Courts (Domestic Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999/62), rules 1(1), 4 (with rule 7); S.R. 1999/92, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/324/rule/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:42.479513+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."
}