{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-registration-of-clubs-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-registration-of-clubs-rules-northern-ireland-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/63",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Registration of Clubs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-registration-of-clubs-rules-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these rules “the Order” means the Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and a reference to an Article or Schedule by number is a reference to that Article or Schedule as numbered in the Order.\n(2) Any reference in these Rules to a Form by number is a reference to that Form so numbered in the Schedule.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 2(3) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/303), rules 2, 22(1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in operation at 20.2.1997, see rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3159 (N.I. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/63/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:46.069563+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."
}