{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52M",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-52M.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/52M",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "52M",
  "heading": "Restriction on access to records kept under Rules 52I, 52K and 52L",
  "text": "(1) The records kept under Rules 52I, 52K and 52L shall not be open to inspection by any person except—\n(a) as authorised by the Secretary of State; or\n(b) with the leave of the court.”]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 52M(1) substituted (29.3.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/51), rules 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 52M title substituted (29.3.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/51), rules 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/52M",
    "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."
}