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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-2011-act-commencement-order-northern-ireland-2011/schedule",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/306",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Finance (2011 Act) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011",
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  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Provisions coming into operation on 10th September 2011",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\n(1)\nSubject Matter\n(2)\nPurpose\n(3)\nSection 2\nAccounting practices\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations and issue guidance regarding the accounting practices to be followed by councils\nSection 3\nAnnual budget\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to prescribe a date in regulations\nSection 13\nDuty to determine affordable borrowing limit\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding a council’s duty to determine and keep under review its affordable borrowing limit\nSection 17\n“Credit arrangements”\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to prescribe liabilities not to be treated as qualifying liabilities\nSection 18\nControl of credit arrangements\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding the calculation of the cost of a credit arrangement or variation, and the treatment of options\nSection 19\n“Capital expenditure”\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding the treatment of expenditure\nSection 20\n“Capital receipt”\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding sums received in respect of capital assets\nSection 22\nUse of capital receipts\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding the use of capital receipts\nSection 25\nGuidance\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to specify guidance in regulations, and to issue guidance, for the purposes of Part 1 (financial administration)\nSection 27\nRates support grant\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations regarding the rates support grant and to determine the information required from councils for the calculation of entitlement to rates support grant for the financial year commencing on 1st April 2012\nSection 31\nAllowances, etc. for councillors\nFor the purpose of enabling the Department to make regulations and issue guidance regarding allowances or other payments to councillors",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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."
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