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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-coronavirus-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-coronavirus-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-assistance-coronavirus-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for financial assistance (Coronavirus Financial Assistance) be awarded to occupiers of certain hereditaments affected by specific closures as a result of application of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 as amended.\nRegulation 1 provides for citation and commencement.\nRegulation 2 provides for the Coronavirus Financial Assistance scheme to be set out in the Schedule.\nSchedule\nParagraph 1 provides for interpretation to be applied in respect of the scheme.\nParagraph 2 provides for applications to be made in relation to the scheme.\nParagraphs 3, 4 and 5 provide the eligibility criteria for the scheme.\nParagraph 6 provides for exclusions to be applied within the scheme.\nParagraph 7 provides that the Department may use information gathered for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, or that may be held by a district council, in administering the award of financial assistance.\nParagraph 8 permits the Department to award financial assistance in accordance with the scheme.\nParagraph 9 makes provision for the Department to recover any amount paid in excess of entitlement under the scheme.\nParagraph 10 and 11 provides for a statutory requirement for a periodic review of the operation of the scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/221/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:42:22.338487+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."
}