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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-racing-charges-on-bookmakers-order-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-racing-charges-on-bookmakers-order-northern-ireland-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/208",
  "legislation_title": "Horse Racing (Charges on Bookmakers) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-racing-charges-on-bookmakers-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HORSE RACING AND BETTING\nMade 20th May 1996\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974\nComing into operation 1st July 1996\nThe Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 9(1) of the Horse Racing (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation with such organisations as appear to the Department to substantially represent the interests of bookmakers, and with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See definition of “the Department” in Article 2(2) of S.I. 1990/1508 (N.I. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1508 (N.I. 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/208/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:09.599696+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."
}