{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2005/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2005/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/21",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2005.\n(2) In this Order –\n“specified hereditament” means a hereditament of a class specified by Article 3 of the New Valuation List (Time and Class of Hereditaments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000;\n“unspecified hereditament” means a hereditament which is not a specified hereditament.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 1.4.2005, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 342"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/21/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:37.065074+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."
}