{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-production-development-levy-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-production-development-levy-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/502",
  "legislation_title": "Pig Production Development (Levy) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-production-development-levy-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Payment of levies",
  "text": "(1) A person required to pay a levy in accordance with Article 2 shall make a return in writing to the Department within 7 days of the end of each month showing—\n(a) the total number of pigs (other than pigs imported into Northern Ireland for immediate slaughter) slaughtered in a slaughter-house to which a licence under section 1 of the Slaughter-houses Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 relates; and\n(b) the total number of pigs exported from Northern Ireland,\nin that month.\n(2) A return made in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the appropriate amount of levy in respect of those pigs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/502/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:47.499237+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."
}