{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-recreational-hereditaments-order-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-recreational-hereditaments-order-northern-ireland-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/72",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Recreational Hereditaments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-recreational-hereditaments-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "RATES\nMade 12th February 2007\nComing into operation 1st April 2007\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000\nThe Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 31(2) and (6) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, makes the following Order.\nIn accordance with Article 31(6) of that Order it has consulted the Sports Council for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (being an Association which appears to the Department to be representative of district councils):",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 31 was substituted by Article 3(1) of the Rates Amendment (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/297 (N.I. 4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28) as amended by the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/72/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:42:41.512860+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."
}