{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/17",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "No right to claim trial by jury",
  "text": "In Article 29(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (right to claim trial by jury for certain summary offences but not those listed in the sub-paragraphs), after sub-paragraph (q) add—\n“(r) section 1 or 2 of the Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in operation at 27.4.2022, see s. 22(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/17/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:22.116321+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."
}