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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-needs-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-3",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Needs Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-needs-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Monitoring and reporting",
  "text": "(1) A public authority must, in such manner as may be directed by the Department—\n(a) compile information on the exercise of its functions under section 1;\n(b) include that information in its annual report; and\n(c) send that information to the Department.\n(2) The Department must publish an annual report containing—\n(a) the information sent to it under subsection (1)(c); and\n(b) information on the exercise by the Department of its functions under this Act,\nand lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.\n(3) The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development must, on or after the day on which the report is laid before the Assembly, make a statement to the Assembly about the content of the report.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in operation (1.6.2017 for specified purposes) by S.R. 2017/78, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 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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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/19/section/3",
    "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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