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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rural-areas-and-rateable-value-limits-scotland-order-1997/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2827",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997",
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  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 22nd December 1997.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the Act” means the Local Government and Rating Act 1997;\n“the Census Report” means the publication “1991 Census -Key Statistics for Localities in Scotland” (ISBN 0 11 495736 3) which was published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1995 and was laid before Parliament pursuant to section 4(1) of the Census Act 1920.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1920 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2827/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:57.332481+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."
}