{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-125.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1984/225",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984",
  "path": "rule/125",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Order for Absolute or Conditional Discharge",
  "text": "(1) Where the court makes an order for absolute or conditional discharge, it shall cause an entry to that effect to be made in the Order Book and, in the case of an order for conditional discharge, that entry shall also specify the duration of the order.\n(2) Where a magistrates’ court makes an order under Article 5(6) or (8), or the Crown Court makes an order under Article 5(7), of the 1996 Order, the clerk of petty sessions ... shall make a note of the order under the said Article 5 opposite the entry in the Order Book relating to the making of the order of conditional discharge.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where a magistrates’ court convicts a person of an offence committed during the period of conditional discharge, the clerk of petty sessions shall, if the court which made the order for conditional discharge was the Crown Court, give a copy of the relevant entry in the Order Book to the chief clerk ....\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 125(2) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(24)(a); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 125(3) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(24)(b); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 125(4) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(24)(c); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 125(5)(6) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(24)(d); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:12.928261+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."
}