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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-and-non-domestic-rating-electronic-communications-england-order-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2604",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-and-non-domestic-rating-electronic-communications-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "—\n(1) This Order may be cited as the Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 5th November 2003.\n(2) This Order applies to billing authorities in England only that is to say, a district or London borough council, the Common Council or the Council of the Isles of Scilly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The powers under which the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/613) and the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1058) are made, are devolved in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3052",
      "affecting_title": "The Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Electronic Communications) (England) (No. 2) Order 2003"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2604/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:54:43.744486+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."
}