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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-northern-ireland-amendment-2001/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/254",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-northern-ireland-amendment-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) 2001 and shall come into operation on 5th September 2001.\n(2) In these Rules “the principal Rules” means the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980 and an Order referred to by number or an Appendix referred to by letter means the Order so numbered or the Appendix so lettered in the principal Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1980 No. 346; to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 1991 No. 334, S.R. 1992 No. 399, S.R. 1995 No. 2, S.R. 1996 No. 283, S.R. 1997 No. 265 and S.R. 1999 No. 333"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/254/article/1",
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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."
}