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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Functions of resident magistrates and justices of the peace other than resident magistrates",
  "text": "(1) A resident magistrate sitting alone may, as well as exercising any function which is conferred by any enactment upon a resident magistrate or upon a lay magistrate, exercise any function which under any enactment may be exercised by—\n(a) two or more lay magistrates; or\n(b) two or more resident magistrates.\n(2) A lay magistrate may not sit in petty sessions and may exercise only such functions as are conferred upon a lay magistrate under—\n(a) any enactment (including this Order) commencing on or after 1st January 1936; or\n(b) any enactment commencing before that day included in Part I of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/3",
    "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."
}