{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-42B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-42B.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/42B",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "42B",
  "heading": "Supply of depositions and complaint to the accused",
  "text": "The person having custody of depositions on which any person has been committed for trial shall, as soon as practicable after the application is made to him by or on behalf of the accused, supply to the accused one copy of the depositions and, if the complaint is in writing, of the complaint.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 42A, 42B inserted (17.10.2022) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/218), rules 1, 3(8) (with rule 2); S.R. 2022/221, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/42B",
    "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."
}