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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-sentences-act-1998-sentence-review-commissioners-rules-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1859",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Sentence Review Commissioners) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-sentences-act-1998-sentence-review-commissioners-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Allocation of cases to and functions of single Commissioners",
  "text": "(1) The Chairman, or a Commissioner acting on his behalf, shall allocate each case to a Commissioner who shall act as the single Commissioner for that case.\n(2) The single Commissioner may take ancillary decisions on behalf of the Commissioner.\n(3) Any decision of the single Commissioner shall be the decision of the Commissioner.\n(4) The Chairman, or a Commissioner acting on his behalf, may at any time re-allocate a case to another Commissioner who shall thereafter act as the single Commissioner for that case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1859/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:20.837946+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."
}