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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rate-order-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/46",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Regional Rate) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rate-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "RATES\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974\nMade 28th February 1996\nComing into operation 1st April 1996\nThe Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 2(2), 7(1) and 27(4) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and having taken into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by means of district rates as required by Article 7(4) of that Order, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Finance. See S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/46/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}