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  "legislation": "nisr/1984/225",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984",
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  "path": "rule/149AF",
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  "number": "149AF",
  "heading": "Application for special measures direction for witness to give evidence by means of a live link",
  "text": "(1) Where the application for a special measures direction is made in accordance with Rule 149AA(2)(a), for a witness to give evidence by means of a live link, the following provisions of this Rule shall also apply.\n(2) [...] A party who seeks to oppose an application for [ a child witness] to give evidence by means of a live link shall, in order to comply with Rule 149AA(6), state why in his view the giving of a special measures direction would not be likely to maximise the quality of the witness’s evidence.\n[(3\n(4) ....]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words omitted by S.R. 2011 No. 418 with effect from 1.1.12"
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 2003 No. 477 with effect from 1.12.03"
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      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraphs (3) and (4) omitted by S.R. 2011 No. 418 with effect from 1.1.12"
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  "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."
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