{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-miscellaneous-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-miscellaneous-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2014/9780337994203",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Miscellaneous) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-miscellaneous-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Obtaining information from DFP for the purpose of developing BID proposals",
  "text": "(1) On receiving a request (made in accordance with paragraph (2)) from any person who is developing BID proposals, DFP shall–\n(a) prepare a document showing (as far as DFP is able to ascertain from its non-domestic rates records at that time) the name of each non-domestic ratepayer and the address, property type and rateable value of each relevant property which is occupied, or (if unoccupied) owned, by that person in the business improvement district; and\n(b) supply in data form a copy of the information in the document to the person developing the BID proposals.\n(2) A request for information under paragraph (1) shall–\n(a) be made in writing to DFP;\n(b) confirm that the person making the request intends to make use of the information requested only for the purpose of developing the BID proposal described in the request;\n(c) provide a summary of the nature of the BID proposals to be developed;\n(d) describe the geographical extent of the business improvement district.\n(3) A person to whom this section applies shall be guilty of an offence it they–\n(a) disclose any information supplied to that person under paragraph (1); or\n(b) make use of any such information,\notherwise than for the purpose of developing the BID proposal described in the request.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence as mentioned in paragraph (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(5) In this regulation “data form” means information which is in a form which is capable of being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 No. 703 (N.I. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2014/9780337994203/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:41:04.221105+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."
}