{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-143",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-143.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/143",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "Execution of warrants in proceedings upon complaint",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this Rule, a warrant issued by a resident magistrate or justice of the peace in proceedings upon complaint shall be addressed to the district commander for the police district in which the warrant is issued]\n(2) A warrant of discharge from prison and, where necessary, a warrant of commitment may be addressed to the prison governor.\n(3) On receipt of a warrant of commitment the prison governor or his deputy shall receive the person named in the warrant (or shall detain him if he is already in custody) for the period specified in the warrant.\n(4) The prison governor or his deputy shall, upon receiving a prisoner into his custody together with a warrant of commitment, give to the person charged with the execution of the warrant a receipt for the prisoner.\n(5) Where the person named in the warrant is to be produced in court after an adjournment or remand the prison governor shall, subject to Article 47(5) of the Order, cause such person to be so produced at the time and place fixed by the warrant.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule substituted by S.R. 2001 No. 432 with effect from 11.1.2002"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/143",
    "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."
}