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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-165",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-165.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/165",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "165",
  "heading": "[Interpretation of Rules 166 to 170",
  "text": "In rules 166 to 170—\n(a) “the Act” means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) a section referred to by number means the section so numbered in the Act; and\n(d) expressions which are defined in the Act have the same meaning in these Rules as they have in the Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 165(b) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(40); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rules 165 – 170 inserted by S.R. 2011 No. 59 with effect from 25.03.11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/165",
    "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."
}