{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-12.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/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Holding of petty sessions in courthouse",
  "text": "Where a courthouse is provided or maintained under the Administration of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 at any place fixed for the holding of petty sessions, the petty sessions shall be held in that courthouse unless either—\n(a) theLord Chief Justice otherwise directs; or\n(b) the resident magistrate presiding or who is to preside otherwise adjourns the sitting of the court pursuant to the powers conferred on him by section 13 of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1954 c. 9 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(a) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para. 64; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/12",
    "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."
}