{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/26",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Duty to comply with arrangements",
  "text": "Where BID arrangements are in force, the billing authority which made the arrangements must comply with them.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 44-47 modified (W.) (13.5.2005) by Business Improvement Districts (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1312), regs. 1(1), 16(5)(b), 17(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 44 applied (with modifications) (16.7.2014 for E. for specified purposes, 2.12.2014 for E. in so far as not already in force) by Business Rate Supplements Act 2009 (c. 7), s. 32, Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(b)(2) (with s. 31); S.I. 2014/1860, art. 2; S.I. 2014/3200, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 18.11.2003 for E. by S.I. 2003/2938, art. 3(a) (with art. 8, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 27.11.2003 for W. by S.I. 2003/3034, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/26/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:07.059359+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."
}