{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-162",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-162.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/162",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "162",
  "heading": "Adjournments in proceedings upon summons, etc., where date of resumption thereof to be fixed",
  "text": "(1) Where proceedings commenced by summons upon complaint are adjourned and the defendant is not remanded in custody or upon bail and the time and place at which the proceedings are to be resumed are, in accordance with Article 161(3) of the Order left to be determined later by the court, the original summons shall be returned by the clerk of petty sessions to the complainant.\n(2) Where the court has determined such time and place, the clerk of petty sessions shall serve notice thereof upon the complainant and the defendant and the complainant shall relodge the original summons with the said clerk a reasonable time before the time specified in the notice.\n(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 24 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 as to the manner in which any document may be served, such notice may be served in any manner directed by a district judge (magistrates’ court) (including service thereof upon a solicitor representing that he is authorised to accept service on behalf of the defendant) and the court before which the proceedings are resumed may declare the service of the notice, however effected, sufficient.\n(4) This Rule shall, subject to any direction of the court, apply also to proceedings before a magistrates’ court commenced by notice of application or notice of appeal as though for reference to the original summons or the defendant there were substituted a reference to such notice of appeal or application or the respondent, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c.33(N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/162",
    "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."
}