{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/62",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Licensing) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-licensing-rules-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these rules unless the context otherwise requires,\n“the Order” means the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;a reference to an Article or Schedule by number is a reference to that Article or Schedule so numbered in the Order, and expressions which are defined in the Order have the same meaning as in the Order.\n(2) Any reference in these rules to a Form by number is a reference to that Form so numbered in the Schedule.\n(3) The notes appended to the Forms do not form any part thereof and are so appended only for the purpose of assisting their proper completion.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 3(4) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/303), rules 2, 21(1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3 in operation at 20.2.1997, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3158 (N.I. 22)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/62/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:32:31.692071+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."
}