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The Rates (Payment by Owners by Agreement) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2007-01-08

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 8th January 2007

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000

Coming into operation: 1st April 2007

The Department of Finance and Personnel[^f00001] makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 22(4) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00002]:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Rates (Payment by Owners by Agreement) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) type=start slip=2007-02-01 time=11860635343452007type=end slip=2007-02-01 time=1186063534345 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2007.

Amendment

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In Article 21(1)[^f00003] of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (payment of rates by owners by agreement) for “10 per cent.” there shall be substituted “15 per cent.”.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 8th January 2007

Brian McClure — A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Under Article 21(1) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 the owner of any hereditament the rent of which becomes payable or is collected at intervals shorter than quarterly may by agreement in writing with the Department of Finance and Personnel (“the Department”) undertake to pay the rates chargeable in respect of the hereditament whether it is occupied or not. The Department may agree, where the owner so undertakes and pays over to the Department on or before the date or dates specified in the agreement the amounts payable by him thereunder, to make an allowance not exceeding 10 per cent. This Order increases the maximum amount of that allowance to 15 per cent.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Finance;seeS.I. 1982/338 (N.I.6) Article 3

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 22(4) was inserted by Article 4 of the Local Government, Planning and Land (Northern Ireland Order (S.I. 1981/ 437 (N.I. 13)); seeArticle 2(2) of S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28) for the definition of “the Department”

[^f00003]: Article 21(1) was amended by Article 4 of the Rates (Amendment)(Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I.22))

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