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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-6/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-6/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1977/2157",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“material change of circumstances” means a change of circumstances which consists of—\n(a)the coming into occupation of a newly erected or newly constructed hereditament or of a hereditament which has been out of occupation on account of structural alterations; or\n(b)a change in the value of a hereditament caused by the making of structural alterations or by the total or partial destruction of any building or other erection by fire or any other physical cause; or\n(c)the happening of any event whereby—\n(i)any property or part of any property begins, or ceases, not to be treated as a hereditament; or\n(ii)any hereditament or part of any hereditament begins or ceases to be entitled to be distinguished in the valuation list in pursuance of Article 41, 42 or 43; or\n(d)property previously valued as a single hereditament becoming liable to be valued as two or more hereditaments; or\n(e)property previously valued as two or more hereditaments becoming liable to be valued as a single hereditament; or\n(f)a hereditament becoming or ceasing to be a dwelling-house; or\n(g)a hereditament being used to a greater or lesser extent for the purposes of a private dwelling or private dwellings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/2157/schedule/6/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:19.076889+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."
}