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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-regional-rates-and-energy-act-2019/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/13",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-regional-rates-and-energy-act-2019",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to report on operation of buy-out arrangements",
  "text": "(1) The Department must, after the end of each financial year for which buy-out arrangements are published by it, prepare a report on the operation of the arrangements in that year.\n(2) A report under this section in respect of a financial year must, in particular, set out—\n(a) the number of participants who have received a buy-out payment in that year, and\n(b) the total amount of the buy-out payments made by the Department in that year.\n(3) In the period while there is no Executive—\n(a) the Department must send a report under this section to the Secretary of State, and\n(b) the Secretary of State must lay the report before Parliament.\n(4) At any other time, the Department must lay a report under this section before the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(5) In this section “the Department”, “buy-out arrangements”, “buy-out payment” and “the period while there is no Executive” have the same meaning as in regulation 23B of the 2012 Regulations (inserted by section 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/13/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:13.123509+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."
}