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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-rates-support-grant-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2011/9780337985379",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Rates Support Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-rates-support-grant-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Population Adjustment Methodology",
  "text": "The Department shall adjust population to address—\n(a) deprivation in a local government district, by taking the following steps—\n(i) application of the employment scores with a 50 percent weighting and income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that community services expenditure is to total expenditure;\n(ii) application of the employment scores with a 100 percent weighting, making an adjustment for each of the proportion that economic development expenditure is to total expenditure;\n(iii) application of the income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;\n(b) an influx of additional population into a local government district, by taking the following steps—\n(i) application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;\n(ii) application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting and travel to work factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that other cleaning expenditure is to total expenditure; and\n(c) sparsity in a local government district, by taking the following step—\napplication of mid-year population density data with a 25 percent weighting and private household data with a 75 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that waste collection expenditure is to total expenditure.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2011/9780337985379/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
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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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