# Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019, Section 5: Duty to report on operation of buy-out arrangements


(1) The Department must, after the end of each financial year for which buy-out arrangements are published by it, prepare a report on the operation of the arrangements in that year.
(2) A report under this section in respect of a financial year must, in particular, set out—
(a) the number of participants who have received a buy-out payment in that year, and
(b) the total amount of the buy-out payments made by the Department in that year.
(3) In the period while there is no Executive—
(a) the Department must send a report under this section to the Secretary of State, and
(b) the Secretary of State must lay the report before Parliament.
(4) At any other time, the Department must lay a report under this section before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(5) In this section “the Department”, “buy-out arrangements”, “buy-out payment” and “the period while there is no Executive” have the same meaning as in regulation 23B of the 2012 Regulations (inserted by section 4).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/13/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-regional-rates-and-energy-act-2019/section-5
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