{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52D.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/52D",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "52D",
  "heading": "[ Applications and procedures under the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003",
  "text": "In this rule and rules 52E to 52M—\n(a) “the Act” means the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003;\n(b) “process” has the same meaning as in section 51(3) of the Act;\n(c) “relevant proceedings” means proceedings under Part 1 or Part 2 ... of Schedule 2 to the Act; and\n(d) “external court” or “external authority” means the court or authority from which a request under section 30 or 31 ... of the Act is received.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 52D(c) inserted (29.3.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/51), rules 1(2), 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 52D(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/908), regs. 1(c), 6(2)(a) (with reg. 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 52D(d) inserted (29.3.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/51), rules 1(2), 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 52D(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/908), regs. 1(c), 6(2)(b) (with reg. 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 52D substituted by S.R. 2010 No. 12 with effect from 1.3.10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/52D",
    "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."
}