{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-65.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/65",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Process Register and extract therefrom",
  "text": "(1) The clerk of petty sessions shall keep a register (to be called the Process Register) in which he shall make the entries relating to each proceeding as specified by the headings to the columns in the register.\n(2) Separate Process Registers shall be kept for debt and ejectment proceedings and are referred to in these Rules as “The Debt Process Register” or “The Ejectment Process Register”, respectively.\n[(3 The Process Register shall be signed at the foot of each page by the district judge (magistrates’ court) who had adjudicated upon the proceedings entered thereon or, where he is unavailable, by the clerk of petty sessions, provided that:\n(a) where a page contain records of proceedings heard on more than one date it shall be signed either by the appropriate district judge (magistrates’ court) or, where he is unavailable, by the clerk of petty sessions at the last entry on each date; or.\n(b) where a page contains records of proceedings heard by more than one district judge (magistrates’ court) it shall be signed either by the appropriate district judge (magistrates’ court) at the last entry of any proceedings heard by him or, where he is unavailable, by the clerk of petty sessions.]\n(4) Any person who satisfies a district judge (magistrates’ court) or a clerk of petty sessions that he has a bona fide interest in the matter may obtain from the clerk of petty sessions, upon payment of the prescribed fee, a memorandum of a proceeding entered in the Process Register.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph substituted by S.R. 1994 No. 387 with effect from 01.11.94"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/65",
    "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."
}