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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Licensing) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nMade 21st November 2016\nComing into operation 19th December 2016\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes and the Department of Justice, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, allows the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, paragraph 2 of Schedule 5, paragraph 3 of Schedule 6, paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf.",
  "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 65 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4); 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 4 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c.13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 No. 3158; to which relevant amendments were made by the Licensing (Indoor Arenas) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1994) (N.I. 17) and the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 24)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/405/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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