{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-35.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/35",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Committal proceedings to be in open court",
  "text": "The place in which a magistrates' court is sitting to conduct ... a preliminary inquiry shall be deemed to be an open court except where—\n(a) any statutory provision contains an express provision to the contrary; or\n(b) it appears to the court that the ends of justice would not be served by sitting in open court for the whole or any part of the ... inquiry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 35 repealed (17.10.2022) by Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 4), s. 5(2), Sch. para. 8(3)(d); S.R. 2022/221, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/35",
    "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."
}