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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-22",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1343",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Exercise of solicitors' lien on documents by Society",
  "text": "In Part VI of the Solicitors Order at the beginning there shall be inserted—\n“Exercise of solicitors' lien on documents by Society\n72A Where, under any provision of this Order or otherwise, a solicitor has delivered any document to the Society or to a solicitor appointed by the Society, the Society shall be deemed to have a lien on that document of the same nature and to the same extent as the solicitor would have had if the document had remained in his possession.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1343/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:11.366589+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."
}