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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-water-charges-scotland-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-water-charges-scotland-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1538",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-water-charges-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nParagraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (as amended by paragraph 38 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988) provides for the provisions of Part II of, and Schedules 1A and 2 to, that Act (as amended by section 129 of, and Schedules 12 and 13 to, the 1988 Act) to have effect, subject to paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 5 (liability to pay community water charges) and to such adaptations, exceptions and modifications as may be prescribed, in relation to the community water charges as they have effect in relation to the corresponding community charges.\nThese Regulations prescribe the adaptations, exceptions and modifications for this purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1538/note",
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  "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."
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