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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2005/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "RATES\nMade 24th January 2005\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000\nComing into operation 1st April 2005\nThe Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 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": "N.I.",
  "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 7(4) was amended by Article 10 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I. 22)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/21/introduction",
    "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."
}