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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-17.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/17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Binding over complainant to prosecute or give evidence upon issue of warrant",
  "text": "(1) When a district judge (magistrates’ courts) or lay magistrate issues a warrant for the arrest of any person he may bind the person making the complaint by recognizance to appear at the court where such person is to be tried to prosecute or to give evidence, as the case may be.\n(2) The recognizance may either be in a separate form or at the foot of the complaint.",
  "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/17",
    "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."
}