{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-157",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-157.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/157",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Return of Recognizance where notice of abandonment of appeal to the county court has been given",
  "text": "After he receives a notice of abandonment of an appeal to the county court the chief clerk ... shall return any recognizance of the appellant entered into under Article 148 or 149 of the Order to the clerk of petty sessions.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 157 omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(38); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/157",
    "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."
}