{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-149AQ",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-149AQ.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/149AQ",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "149AQ",
  "heading": "Hearings",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the court may –\n(a) determine any application made under Rule 149AN, 149AO or 149AP without a hearing; or\n(b) direct a hearing of any such application.\n(2) Where a party to the proceedings notifies the clerk of petty sessions of his opposition to an application under Rule 149AN, 149AO or, as the case may be, 149AP, the court shall direct a hearing of that application.\n(3) Where a hearing of an application is to take place in accordance with this Rule, the clerk of petty sessions shall notify each party to the proceedings of the time and place of the hearing.\n(4) A party notified in accordance with paragraph (3) may be present at the hearing and be heard.\n(5) Before determining an application, the court may hear and take into account representations made to it by any person who in the court’s opinion has a legitimate interest in the application before it.\n(6) The clerk of petty sessions shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the determination of an application under Rule 149AN, 149AO or 149AP, notify all the parties to the proceedings of the decision of the court in Form 15P.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/149AQ",
    "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."
}