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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-regional-rates-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "rates\nMade 29th January 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 7(1) and (3) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, makes the following Order.\nIn accordance with Article 7(4) of that Order it has taken into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by district rates:",
  "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); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 7(4) was amended by Article 10 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I. 22))"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/52/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."
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