{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-domestic-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-9.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/9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Notice of court’s powers under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "text": "(1) In a case where the powers of a court under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 are or may be exercisable but where no application has been made under that Order, the clerk of petty sessions shall upon the making of an application under Article 4, 8 or 9 of the Order or Parts 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 16 to the Act of 2004 send by ordinary post a notice in Form D7 to—\nthe applicant or his solicitor;\nthe respondent or his solicitor; and\nany parent of the child who is not a party to the marriage or civil partnership; and whose name and address is known.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 9 inserted (6.1.2006) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/559), rules 1, 18(a) (with rule 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 9 inserted (6.1.2006) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/559), rules 1, 18(b) (with rule 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 9 in operation at 4.11.1996, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/324/rule/9",
    "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."
}