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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-sentences-act-1998-sentence-review-commissioners-rules-1998/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Response papers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the Respondent shall, within twenty one days of receiving the copy set of application papers, serve on the Commissioner one original and one copy set of response papers comprising the information and documents specified in Schedule 2 to these Rules.\n(2) The original set of response papers shall be marked as such and may contain copies (rather than originals) of the documents specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Part I of Schedule 3 to these Rules.\n(3) The copy set of response papers shall be marked as such and, if supplied by the Secretary of State, shall not include any damaging information.\n(4) In the case of applications made under section 3(1) of the Act, the Secretary of State shall further include in the response papers:\n(a) the information and documents specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to these Rules; and\n(b) where the person concerned is a life prisoner, the information and documents specified in Part II of Schedule 3 to these Rules.\n(5) The Commissioners shall, within seven days of receiving the copy set of response papers, serve them on the Applicant.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1859/article/8",
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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."
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