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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rural-settlements-england-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2792",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rural-settlements-england-order-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSchedule 1 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 amends the Local Government Finance Act 1988 to make provision for mandatory relief from non-domestic rates for certain general stores and post offices, and discretionary relief for hereditaments used for purposes beneficial to the local community, in certain rural settlements in areas designated as rural areas by order of the Secretary of State. The rural settlements are to be identified on lists drawn up by billing authorities.\nArticle 2 of this order designates for the purposes of these provisions areas in England identified by reference to orders designating areas for the purposes of the right to acquire under the Housing Act 1996 and the additional right to enfranchise under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (see S.I. 1997/620 to 625 inclusive), and certain other areas specified in article 2 and Schedule 2.\nArticle 3, which also applies in England only, prescribes maxima of rateable value, above which hereditaments will not be eligible for the relief. £5,000 is prescribed in relation to mandatory relief, and £10,000 in relation to discretionary relief.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2792/note",
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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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