{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1977/2157",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 2, a notice by any person under Article 29(1) may be served—\n(a) at any time within the three months immediately preceding the beginning of a year; or\n(b) in the year in which he first becomes qualified to serve such a notice in respect of the hereditament in question, on any later date in that year, which is not later than the twenty-eighth day after he first became so qualified;\nand the effective date of the notice—\n(i) where it is served after 31st December in any year, shall be the first day of the next succeeding year;\n(ii) in any other case, shall be the date of the service of the notice.",
  "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/9/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."
}