{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/article-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/article-144.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "article/144",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Record of examination",
  "text": "(1) Unless the court otherwise directs, the written record of the respondent’s examination and any answer given by him to interrogatories, and any affidavits submitted by him in compliance with an order of the court under Article 200, shall not be filed with the court.\n(2) The documents set out in paragraph (3) of this Rule shall not be open to inspection without an order of the court, by any person other than the postal administrator.\n(3) The documents to which paragraph (2) of this Rule applies are—\n(a) the written record of the respondent’s examination;\n(b) copies of questions put to the respondent or proposed to be put to the respondent and answers to questions given by the respondent;\n(c) any affidavit by the respondent; and\n(d) any document on the court file as shows the grounds for the application for an order.\n(4) The court may from time to time give directions as to the custody and inspection of any documents to which this Rule applies, and as to the furnishing of copies of, or extracts from, such documents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/257/article/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:30.830898+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."
}