{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-improvement-districts-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-improvement-districts-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-improvement-districts-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Instructions to hold a BID ballot, renewal ballot, alteration ballot or re-ballot",
  "text": "(1) Where the district council–\n(a) subject to paragraph (2), receives a notice pursuant to regulation 4(2)(a)(ii); or\n(b) receives a notification from the Department under regulation 10(10) requiring it to arrange a re-ballot;\nit shall–\n(i) instruct the ballot holder to hold a BID ballot, a renewal ballot, an alteration ballot or re-ballot, as the case may be.\n(2) Where the district council receives a notice pursuant to regulation 4(2)(a)(ii), it shall not be required to instruct the ballot holder under paragraph (1) until such time as the BID proposer or Bid body, as the case may be, complies with the requirements of regulation 5(1) and (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/143/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:06:51.529882+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."
}