{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-20.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/20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Certificate of conviction or order",
  "text": "(1) At the request of any person with a bona fide interest in any proceedings a district judge (magistrates’ courts), Lay magistrate or clerk of petty sessions shall grant a certificate of the conviction or order made in such proceedings.\n(2) The certificate shall be signed by a district judge (magistrates’ courts), a lay magistrate or by the clerk of petty sessions.\n(3) A certificate under this Rule shall be prima facie evidence of the conviction or order an, except where it is proved that such a certificate purporting to be signed by a district judge (magistrates’ courts) or lay magistrate or clerk of petty sessions was not in fact so signed, the certificate shall operate as a valid form of conviction or order for any purpose whatsoever.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 20(2) substituted (31.10.2016) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(5); 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/20",
    "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."
}