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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1709",
  "legislation_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“building bye-laws” includes—\n(a)bye-laws made by any sanitary authority under section 41 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 1878 c.52 with respect to … new streets;\n(b)any enactments in section 109 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 1847 c.34, section 43 of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854 1854 c.103, or in any local Acts dealing with construction of new buildings, including the drainage thereof, and the laying out and construction and drainage of new streets, and any bye-laws made with respect to such matters under any such local Act;\n“local authority” means the council of a borough, county borough or of an urban or rural district.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 NI 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1709/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:43.274492+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."
}