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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2021/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Licensing) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts\nProcedures\nMade 9th December 2021\nComing into operation 4th January 2022\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Rules Committee makes and the Department of Justice, after consultation with the Lady Chief Justice, allows the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "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)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/339/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:36:29.858574+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."
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