The Rates (Coronavirus: Making of District Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made: 3rd February 2021

Coming into operation: 5th February 2021

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Citation and commencement

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Amendment of the Rates Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 3rd February 2021

Alan Brontë — A senior officer of the Department of Finance

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the date by which a district council must make their district rate for a forthcoming rating year from 15th February to 1st March.

The change is made in order to allow district councils more time to address financial planning considerations arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Article 1 provides for citation and commencement.

Article 2 makes an amendment to the Rates Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 to amend the date by which a district council must make the district rates from 15th February to 1st March.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: The Department of Finance and Personnel was renamed the Department of Finance by section 1(4) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 61(2B) was inserted by paragraph 38(4) of Schedule 2 to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)).

[^f00003]: S.R. 2007 No. 61 as amended by S.R. 2009 No. 58 and S.R. 2010 No. 18.

Editorial notes

[^key-71df430cd01b71c98ae62a3b11ff91c7]: Regulations revoked (1.2.2022) by The Rates (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/13), regs. 1, 3