The Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

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Publication 2022-11-08
Last updated 2022-12-08
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Jurisdiction Northern Ireland
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Made: 8th November 2022

Coming into operation: 8th December 2022

The Department of Finance[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 31C of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00002].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 8th December 2022.

Definition of “qualifying year”

2

In the definition of “qualifying year” in regulation 2 of the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010[^f00003] for the words “1st April 2023” there shall be substituted the words “1st April 2024”.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 8th November 2022

Sharon Magee — A senior officer of the Department of Finance

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the definition of “qualifying year” in the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 to provide for an extension of the small business rate relief scheme until 31st March 2024.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: The reference to the Department of Finance was amended to the Department of Finance and Personnel by Article 39 of, and Schedule 2 to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (2006 No.2954 (N.I.18)). 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 31C was substituted by section 1 of the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8 (N.I.)) and amended by section 7 of the Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c.6(N.I.))

[^f00003]: S.R. 2010 No.4 as amended by S.R.2012 No.106, S.R.2013 No.46, S.R.2014 No.68, S.R.2015 No 123, S.R.2016 No. 26, S.R.2017 No. 72, S.R.2018 No.61, S.R.2019 No. 44, S.R. 2020 No. 91, S.R. 2021 No. 111 and S.R. 2022 No. 51.

Editorial notes

[^key-0a555498888875ead5a7215a3c2e2b1f]: Reg. 1 in operation at 8.12.2022, see reg. 1

[^key-f16defe5515d69826662488787cd7d15]: Reg. 2 in operation at 8.12.2022, see reg. 1

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