{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-127",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-127.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/127",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "127",
  "heading": "Notification of conviction before expiration of period of deferment",
  "text": "(1) Where under [ Article 3 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996] a court has deferred passing sentence on an offender and before the expiration of the period of deferment he is convicted of any offence by a magistrates’ court, the clerk of petty sessions shall, ... if the court which deferred passing sentence on the earlier occasion was the Crown Court, give notice of the conviction to the chief clerk ....\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 127(1) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(28)(a); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 127(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(28)(b); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 1997 No. 529 with effect from 01.01.98"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/127",
    "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."
}