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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-small-business-rate-relief-england-order-2004/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-small-business-rate-relief-england-order-2004/article-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Service of applications",
  "text": "(1) An application under subsection 43(4B)(a)(iii) of the Act shall be served on the billing authority concerned by—\n(a) addressing it to the authority; and\n(b) delivering it or sending it to the authority’s office by post or electronic communication.\n(2) Any application sent by electronic communication shall, unless the contrary is proved, be regarded as served when it is received in a legible form.\n(3) In this article, “electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 15 was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2313",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (Amendment) (England) Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3315/article/5",
    "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."
}