{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/204",
  "legislation_title": "The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Calculation of weekly amount of rate relief",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 30A of the principal Order the amount of a person’s rate relief in any rate relief week shall be calculated by applying the formula (“the rate relief formula”)—\n(M−E)−HB=RRwhere—\nM is the weekly amount of maximum rate relief;\nE is 12 per cent of the weekly amount of excess of income;\nHB is the weekly amount of housing benefit entitlement;\nRR is the weekly amount of rate relief entitlement.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“applicable amount” means the applicable amount as calculated under Part 5 (applicable amounts);\n“excess of income” means the resultant figure after the deduction of a person’s income from his applicable amount;\n“housing benefit entitlement” means that amount of housing benefit determined in accordance with Part VIII of the Housing Benefit Regulations but only in so far as it relates to a rate rebate, or as the case may be, an amount equivalent to the amount of notional entitlement as calculated under regulation 20 (notional entitlement to housing benefit); arrears of housing benefit shall be disregarded in full for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“income” means income as calculated under Part 6 (income and capital);\n“maximum rate relief” means the maximum rate relief amount as calculated under regulation 22(1)(e) (maximum rate relief).\n(3) Where the result of the rate relief formula is zero or a negative amount there shall be no entitlement to a payment of rate relief.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/204/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:14.377364+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}