{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-northern-ireland-2019/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-northern-ireland-2019/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on exit day 2019.\n(2) In these Rules, a reference to a rule—\n(a) in Part 2 of the Rules is a reference to the rule so numbered in the Magistrates’ Courts (Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1986; and\n(b) in Part 3 of these Rules is a reference to the rule so numbered in the Magistrates’ Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R 1986 No. 359, to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2011 No. 225 and S.R. 2012 No. 414."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R 1996 No. 323, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2011 No. 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/238/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:04.075747+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."
}