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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No.3) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-northern-ireland-amendment-no3-2008",
  "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 No. 3) 2008 and shall come into operation on 4th December 2008.\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 the relevant amendments to which are S.R. 1981 No.224; S.R. 1984 No. 110; S.R. 1991 No.231; S.R. 1991 No.232; S.R. 1992 No.399; S.R. 2005 No.314 and S.R. 2008 No. 22."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/479/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."
}