{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-140.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/140",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "To whom payments of sums ordered to be paid in proceedings upon complaint are to be made",
  "text": "(1) Except where the court otherwise directs, a person ordered to pay a sum by a magistrates’ court in proceedings upon complaint shall, unless a warrant to enforce payment thereof has been issued, pay that sum or any instalment thereof to the clerk of petty sessions.\n(2) The provisions of this Rule shall not derogate from those of section 5 of the Fines Act (Ireland) 1851.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "14 & 15 Vict c. 90"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/140",
    "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."
}