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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-stalking-protection-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2023/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-stalking-protection-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2023/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Stalking Protection Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-stalking-protection-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Stalking Protection Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on the same day as section 7 of the Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.\n(2) In these Rules—\n(a) “the Act” means the Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 and expressions used have the same meaning as in the Act;\n(b) a reference to a Form by number means the Form so numbered in the Schedule to these Rules or a form to like effect.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1 in operation at 19.10.2023, see rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2022 c. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/175/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:30:32.063985+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."
}