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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-1991-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-1991-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1991/116",
  "legislation_title": "Financial Provisions (1991 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-provisions-1991-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order brings into operation on 1st April 1991 the Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 which contains miscellaneous financial provisions for:\n(a) part of the regional rate to be allocated to water and sewerage services without having been paid into the Consolidated Fund;\n(b) an increase in the statutory limit for government loans;\n(c) the rate of interest on government loans to be the rate in force on the day the application for the loan is received;\n(d) the repeal of the Loans Guarantee and Borrowing Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 1946;\n(e) the Department of Agriculture to spend up to £25,000 on emergency works on watercourses without the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel; and\n(f) an alteration of the arrangements for funding the Sports Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/116/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:03:32.332948+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."
}