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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-81.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/81",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Enlargement or abridgement of times",
  "text": "The court may, upon such terms as it thinks fit, enlarge or abridge any of the times fixed by these Rules for taking any step or doing an act in debt or ejectment proceedings, or declare any step taken or act done to be sufficient even though not taken or done within the time or manner prescribed by the Rules.",
  "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/81",
    "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."
}