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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-166",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-166.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/166",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Application for an investigation anonymity order",
  "text": "(1) An application for an investigation anonymity order shall—\n(a) be made in writing setting out how the conditions specified in section 78(3) to (8) of the Act are satisfied;\n(b) identify the person to be specified in the order, unless the court otherwise directs; and\n(c) attach any material on which the applicant intends to rely.\n(2) The applicant shall indicate if he or she intends to appeal a refusal to make an investigation anonymity order—\n(a) in the application for the order; or\n(b) if there is a hearing of the application, at the hearing.\n(3) The applicant shall serve a copy of the application under paragraph (1) on the clerk of petty sessions.\n(4) Where a hearing is directed, the clerk of petty sessions shall fix a date for the hearing of the application and notify the applicant of the time and place of hearing.\n(5) At a hearing of an application under paragraph (1), the applicant shall, if he or she has not already done so, inform the court of the identity of the person to be specified in the order, unless the court otherwise directs.\n(6) The clerk of petty sessions shall, as soon as practicable, after the determination of an application under paragraph (1), notify the applicant of the decision in Form 126.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/166",
    "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."
}