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The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Confidentiality) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997
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- 1997 No. 532
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Proceedings for contempt of court under section 18
5.—(1) This Rule applies to proceedings in a magistrates' court to deal with a contempt of court under section 18.
(2) Proceedings to which this Rule applies shall be brought by way of civil complaint in accordance with Part VIII of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1).
(3) Proceedings to which this Rule applies are brought by either—
(a)the prosecutor; or
(b)any person claiming to have an interest in the object or in any information recorded in any object the use or disclosure of which is alleged to contravene section 17,
the complaint shall be made to the clerk of petty sessions for the petty sessions district for which the court of summary jurisdiction which conducted or is conducting the proceedings for whose purposes the object mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) was given or inspected, sits.
(1)
S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)
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