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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2021/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Magistrates’ Courts (Licensing) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. 1997 No. 62) in consequence of amendments made to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (1996 No. 3158) (N.I. 22)) by the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c.7) to—\nmake provision for the procedure for an application for an order for further additional permitted hours;\nmake provision requiring that a copy of the pages of the newspapers bearing a notice of intention to apply for an order for additional permitted hours be lodged with the clerk of petty sessions; and\nmake amendments consequential to the repeal of restrictions on Easter licensing hours and the alignment of closing time for liquor and entertainment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/339/note",
    "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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