{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-14.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/14",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Form of warrant or order",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a warrant or form of order issued to give effect to the order of a magistrates’ court shall be signed by the district judge (magistrates’ courts) or lay magistrate who made the order or by the clerk of petty sessions.\n(2) A warrant to arrest or warrant to search must be signed by a district judge (magistrates’ courts) or lay magistrate.\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) No warrant shall be signed in Blank.\n(4) Every warrant shall state shortly the offence charged in the complaint or the grounds on which the warrant is issued.\n(5) A warrant shall name in full or otherwise describe the person against whom it is issued.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n[(7 Where no other form of warrant of arrest is prescribed, either by these Rules or by any other statutory provision, the warrant in Form 8C shall be used.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 14(1) substituted (1.6.2018) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No.2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/103), rules 1, 3(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 14(2A) omitted (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No.2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/103), rules 1, 3(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 14(2B) omitted (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No.2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/103), rules 1, 3(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 14(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(4); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 2010 No. 12 with effect from 1.3.10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/14",
    "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."
}