{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-9.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/9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Preparation of summons",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the complainant or, where the summons is a witness summons, the person applying for the issue of the summons shall be responsible for the preparation of any necessary summons.\n(2) Where the complainant or the person applying for the issue of a witness summons is not a solicitor [...] the lay magistrate receiving the complaint or granting the application may direct the clerk of petty sessions to assist in the preparation of a summons.\n(3) References in this Rule to a summons include any copy thereof for service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words omitted by S.R. 2009 No. 310 with effect from 30.9.09"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/9",
    "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."
}