{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52E.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/52E",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "52E",
  "heading": "Notice required to accompany process served outside the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) The notice which by virtue of section 3(4)(b) of the Act shall accompany any process served outside the United Kingdom shall give the information specified in paragraphs (2) and (4).\n(2) The notice shall—\n(a) state that the person required by the process to appear as a party or attend as a witness may obtain information about his rights in connection with such requirement from the relevant authority; and\n(b) give the particulars specified in paragraph (4) about that authority.\n(3) The “relevant authority” where the process is served—\n(a) at the request of the prosecuting authority, is that prosecuting authority;\n(b) at the request of the defendant, or of the prosecutor in the case of a private prosecution, is the court by which the process is served.\n(4) The particulars referred to in paragraph (2) are—\n(a) the name and address of the prosecuting authority or, as the case may be, the court, together with its telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address;\n(b) the name of a person at the prosecuting authority or, as the case may be, the court who can provide the information referred to in paragraph (2)(a), together with his telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.\n(5) Where section 3(3) of the Act applies, the clerk of petty sessions shall require any process served outside the United Kingdom to be accompanied by—\n(a) any translation which is provided under section 3(3)(b) of the Act; and\n(b) any translation of the information required to be given by this Rule which is provided to him.",
  "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/52E",
    "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."
}