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The Rates (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2022-01-21

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 21st January 2022

Coming into operation: 1st February 2022

The Department of Finance[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 8 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00002].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and comes into operation on 1st February 2022.

Amendment of the Rates Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

2

In regulation 2(1) of the Rates Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007[^f00003], for “1st March” substitute “15th February”.

Revocation

3

The Rates (Coronavirus: Making of District Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021[^f00004] are revoked.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 21st January 2022

Sharon Magee — A senior officer of the Department of Finance

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The change is made following a temporary adjustment during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to allow district councils more time to address financial planning considerations.

Article 1 provides for citation and commencement.

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

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, S.R. 2010 No. 18. And S.R. 2021 No. 21

[^f00004]: S.R. 2021 No. 21

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