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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-fees-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/102",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Fees Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-fees-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(a) “the Order” means the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n(b) “the Magistrates' Courts Rules” means the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984;\n(c) a Rule referred to by number means the Rule so numbered in the Magistrates' Courts Rules;\n(d) expressions used in the Magistrates' Courts Rules have the same meanings as in those Rules;\n(e) Schedules 1 and 2 mean Schedules 1 and 2 respectively to this Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 1.4.1996, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 225"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/343",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/102/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:37:06.738762+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."
}