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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-officers-district-judge-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1991/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Officers (District Judge) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-officers-district-judge-northern-ireland-order-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "—\n(1) This Order may be cited as the Statutory Officers (District Judge) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and shall come into operation on 28th June 1991.\n(2) In this Order:\n“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 ; and\n“statutory document” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(e) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/230/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:02:30.017174+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."
}