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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-small-business-rate-relief-england-order-2004/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3315",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (England) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-small-business-rate-relief-england-order-2004",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The application",
  "text": "(1) An application under section 43(4B)(a)(iii) of the Act shall be in the form specified in the Schedule or a form to the like effect, shall contain the information there specified and shall be signed by the ratepayer or a person authorised to sign on behalf of the ratepayer.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n“person authorised to sign on behalf of the ratepayer” means, where the ratepayer is—\n(a) a partnership, a partner of that partnership;\n(b) a trust, a trustee of that trust;\n(c) a body corporate, a director of that body, and\nin any other case, a person duly authorised to sign on behalf of the ratepayer; and\n“signature”, “sign” or “signed”, in relation to an application served, in accordance with article 5, by electronic communication, includes the incorporation in it, or the logical association with it, of an electronic signature, as defined in section 7(2) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3315/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:16.190874+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."
}