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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Revocation of existing rules",
  "text": "The following Rules are hereby revoked as from the coming into force of these Rules:—\nthe Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1974 ;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Emergency Provisions) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1976;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1976;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1976;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Extra-territorial Offences) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1976;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 3) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1976;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1977;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1977;\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1978\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Attachment of Earnings) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Criminal Justice) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 3) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980\nthe Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 4) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1974 No. 334"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 40"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 120"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 170"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 200"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.R. 1977 No. 171"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.R. 1977 No. 311"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "S.R. 1978 No. 374"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 132"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 137"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 199"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 226"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 226"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 409"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/4",
    "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."
}