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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-rules-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-9",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1573",
  "legislation_title": "Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
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  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Application of Documentary Evidence Acts to rule-making authorities",
  "text": "Without prejudice to any other statutory provision, the Documentary Evidence Act 1868 1868 c.37, as amended by the Documentary Evidence Act 1882 1882 c.9 shall apply to every rule-making authority as if—\n(a) the rule-making authority were included in the first column of the Schedule to the first-mentioned Act;\n(b) the rule-making authority or a principal officer of that authority were named in the second column of that Schedule as a certifying officer;\n(c) the regulations referred to in those Acts included statutory rules within the meaning of this Order;\n(d) the expression “Gazette” included the Belfast Gazette; and the expression “Government printer” included the officer appointed to print Measures of the Assembly; and\n(e) photographic copies for the supply and sale of which arrangements have been made under Article 7(3) were copies purporting to be printed by the Government printer.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1573/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:46.262227+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."
}