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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rural-areas-and-rateable-value-limits-scotland-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Non Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 2005",
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  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of rural areas",
  "text": "(1) There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Act (rural settlement list) each of the local authority areas specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order under exclusion of the localities specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the local authority area in question.\n(2) The boundaries of the localities specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order shall be the boundaries of those localities used for the purposes of the Census Report and as these are delineated on the maps annexed to that publication.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/103/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:20.549516+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."
}