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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-violent-offences-prevention-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/94",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Violent Offences Prevention Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-violent-offences-prevention-orders-rules-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules contain provisions relating to Part 8 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (2015 c.9) which makes provision in relation to violent offences prevention orders.\nRule 2 prescribes the procedure for an application for a violent offences prevention order and an interim violent offences prevention order.\nRule 3 prescribes the procedure for an application for variation renewal or discharge of a violent offences prevention order or for the variation or discharge of an interim violent offences prevention order.\nRule 4 prescribes the manner in which a summons or an order required to be served under these Rules may be served.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/94/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:57.521000+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."
}