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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-northern-ireland-amendment-2001/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980 so as to—\n(a) implement recommendations 1 (overriding objective) and 51 (taxation of single item) of the Final Report of the Civil Justice Reform Group (Rules 2, 3, 9 and 11);\n(b) ensure that all persons in occupation of mortgaged properties are afforded adequate notice of proceedings for possession or made parties to such proceedings (Rules 8, 10 and 11);\n(c) take account of the Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (Rules 4 to 7);\n(d) take account of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 insofar as it relates to regulated agreements secured by mortgage (Rules 10 and 11);\n(e) take account of Article 6 of the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 in the context of applications relating to mortgaged properties (Rule 10);\n(f) ensure that copies of exhibits to the plaintiff’s grounding affidavits in mortgage actions for possession are served on defendants who do not enter appearances (Rule 10); and\n(g) ensure that sufficient particulars of mortgage interest are available (Rule 10).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/254/note",
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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."
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