{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/322",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations (Questions and Replies) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Period for service of questions — county court cases",
  "text": "In proceedings before a county court a question shall only be admissible as evidence in pursuance of Article 63(2)(a) of the Order—\n(a) where it was served before those proceedings had been instituted, if it was so served during—\n(i) the period of six months beginning when the act complained of was done, or\n(ii) in a case to which Article 54(5) of the Order applies, the period of eight months so beginning;\n(b) where it was served when those proceedings had been instituted, if it was served with the leave of, and within a period specified by, the court.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 4.8.1997, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/322/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:08.990293+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."
}