{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-15.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/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Rules under or for the purpose of particular enactments",
  "text": "(1) The power under section 32A(1) of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 with respect to the making of rules under that Act regarding persons charged before magistrates' courts shall be exercised by the Secretary of State after consultation with the Rules Committee.\n(2) Magistrates' courts rules may assign to juvenile courts the hearing of any applications for orders or licences relating to children. . . being applications cognizable by courts of summary jurisdiction, if in the opinion of theLord Chief Justice after consultation with the Rules Committee it is desirable in the interests of the children. . . concerned that such applications should be heard by juvenile courts.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), any complaint under Schedule 13 to the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (which relates to compulsory attendance at school), shall be deemed to be an application for an order relating to a child.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1996 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1998 NI 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 15(2) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para. 67; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1986 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 15: functions of Secretary of State transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2), Sch. 1 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/15",
    "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."
}