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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2021/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Commissioners’ (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Parole Commissioners’ Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009 (the 2009 Rules) to add a new rule 22A. It enables registered victims or other persons to make a request for a summary of the reasons for a final direction of a single Commissioner under rule 13(2)(b) of the 2009 Rules or of a decision of a panel made in oral proceedings under rule 24(2) of the 2009 Rules to be produced and disclosed, unless the single Commissioner or the chairman of the panel, as the case may be, considers there are exceptional circumstances why a summary should not be produced.\nRule 2(1) makes a consequential amendment to Rule 22 and Rule 3 applies a transitional provision.\nNo impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/138/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:38:59.672667+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."
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