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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-114",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-114.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/114",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "114",
  "heading": "Issue, postponement and stay of execution of warrants",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this Order or any other enactment, where a magistrates' court makes an order upon conviction which is to have immediate effect it shall issue the proper warrant for executing the order forthwith or, if for any reason and subject to any enactment, the order is not to have immediate effect the court may postpone the issue or stay the execution of the warrant.\n(2) A magistrates' court may postpone the issue of any other warrant or stay the execution of it until such time and on such conditions as it thinks just; but a lay magistrate sitting out of petty sessions may postpone the issue of a warrant, or stay the execution of it, only if it was issued by him or another lay magistrate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 114(2) applied (31.10.2007) by Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/407), art. 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 114(2) applied (31.12.2008) by Sea Fishing (Marking and Identification of Passive Fishing Gear and Beam Trawls) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/484), art. 5(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/139",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Days in Port) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1679",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1681",
      "affecting_title": "The Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/907",
      "affecting_title": "The Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/908",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "extended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/424",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/114",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:00.143829+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."
}