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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1985/1208",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An entertainment to which this paragraph applies shall not be provided at any place except under and in accordance with the terms of a licence granted under paragraph 3 by the council for the district in which the place is situated.\n(2) This paragraph applies to any public musical entertainment which is held—\n(a) wholly or mainly in the open air; and\n(b) at a place on private land.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) an entertainment is musical if music or singing is a substantial ingredient; and\n(b) land is private if the public has access to it (whether on payment or otherwise) only by permission of the owner, occupier or lessee.\n(4) This paragraph does not apply—\n(a) to a garden fete, bazaar, sale of work, sporting or athletic event, exhibition, display or other function or event of a similar character, whether limited to one day or extending over two or more days; or\n(b) to a religious meeting or service,\nmerely because music or singing is incidental to it.\n(5) This paragraph does not apply to an entertainment held in a pleasure fair.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1985/1208/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:46.222436+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."
}