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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-rates-northern-ireland-regulations-2023/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/198",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Rates (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regional-rates-northern-ireland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Northern Ireland\nMade 22nd February 2023\nLaid before the House of Commons 23rd February 2023\nComing into force 20th March 2023\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 11(1) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022.\nThe Secretary of State has taken into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by means of district rates for the year ending 31st March 2024 before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2022 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 7(4) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)), which requires the Department of Finance to take into consideration estimates of the amounts to be raised by district rates for the year in question before making an order setting the regional rates, is applied by section 11(4) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 to regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 11(1) of that Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/198/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."
}