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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-rating-act-1997-commencement-no3-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2826",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (Commencement No.3) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-rating-act-1997-commencement-no3-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "Subject to article 3 below, the following provisions of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 shall come into force on 1st December 1997:–\n(a) section 5 and Schedule 2 (relief from non-domestic rates for general stores etc. in rural settlements: Scotland);\n(b) section 8 (orders under section 6 and Schedule 2);\n(c) section 33(1) (minor and consequential amendments), insofar as it relates to the provision mentioned in paragraph (d) below; and\n(d) paragraph 29(b) of Schedule 3 (amendment of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}