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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-transitional-relief-order-northern-ireland-2015/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Transitional Relief) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-transitional-relief-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Transitional Relief) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2015.\n(2) In this Order—\n“capital value district rate” means a district rate made by a district council on the rateable capital values of hereditaments in its district;\n“former district” means a local government district established in pursuance of the Local Government Boundaries Act (Northern Ireland) 1971;\n“hereditament in the social sector” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 23A(3) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n“Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975; and\n“net annual value district rate” means a district rate made by a district council on the rateable net annual values of hereditaments in its district.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.9 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 23A was inserted by Article 7 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1975 c.26"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/83/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:26.767802+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."
}