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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-152",
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  "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/152",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "152",
  "heading": "Recognizances taken under Article 129 or 130 of the Order",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is discharged from custody upon his entering into a recognizance under Article 129 or 130 of the Order the member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in charge of the [ police station] shall give such person a copy of the recognizance before he leaves the [ police station.]\n(2) Where a person is released from custody under Article 130(1)(a) of the Order upon his entering into a recognizance to appear before a magistrates’ court, such recognizance need not be conditioned for his personal appearance before such court if the complaint into which inquiries are being made charges a summary offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R 2009 No. 310 with effect from 30.09.09"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/152",
    "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."
}