{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-161",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-161.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/161",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "161",
  "heading": "Appellant to be told of his right to apply to the High Court for release from custody or reduction of bail pending hearing of appeal",
  "text": "Where a magistrates’ court or any lay magistrate ... refuses to allow a person to be released from custody or has fixed the amount of a recognizance under Article 148(1) of the Order pending his appeal to the county court or by way of case stated to the Court of Appeal, the magistrates’ court or justice shall inform him of his right to apply to the High Court or to a Judge thereof in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 148 of the Order for his release from custody or for reduction of the amount of the recognizance he or any surety has been required to enter or of the amount of any security to be given in lieu of sureties to the recognizance.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 161 omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(39); 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/161",
    "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."
}