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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-needs-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-2",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Needs Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Guidance, advice and information, etc.",
  "text": "The Department may take such steps as appear to it to be appropriate to—\n(a) provide any person with guidance, advice and information about issues connected with rural needs or ways of meeting those needs;\n(b) undertake, commission or support (by financial means or otherwise) research into any matter relating to rural needs.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in operation (1.6.2017 for specified purposes) by S.R. 2017/78, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in operation at 1.6.2018 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2018/115, art. 2"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/19/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:53.416990+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."
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