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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-sentences-act-1998-sentence-review-commissioners-rules-1998/article-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General powers of the Commissioner",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Rules, the Commissioner may regulate their own procedure in dealing with each case as they consider appropriate.\n(2) The Commissioners shall make available to applicants and their representatives information regarding any procedures they adopt pursuant to paragraph (1).\n(3) The Commissioners may deal with cases in the order they consider appropriate save that they shall, so far as it is practicable to do so, give priority to the consideration of cases where the person concerned is a recalled prisoner.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1859/article/6",
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  },
  "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."
}