{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-40.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/40",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Procedure where court decides not to admit statement or part thereof as evidence",
  "text": "Where the court decides not to admit as evidence any written statement or part thereof tendered in evidence at the preliminary inquiry into any charge against the accused, the presiding district judge (magistrates’ court) or lay magistrate shall announce such decision forthwith and shall thereupon delete such statement or part thereof, and shall write or cause to be written upon such statement or, as the case may be, against that part the words “This statement is not admitted as evidence” or alternatively “The part of this statement herewith deleted is not admitted as evidence” and in either case he shall subscribe his name thereto.",
  "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/40",
    "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."
}