{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-49.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/49",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "False representations for obtaining relief",
  "text": "(1) If a person for the purpose of obtaining rate relief under the principal Order, whether for himself or some other person, or for any other purpose connected with that legislation—\n(a) makes a statement or representation which he knows to be false; or\n(b) produces or furnishes, or knowingly causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence if—\n(a) there has been a change of circumstances affecting any entitlement of his to rate relief under any provision of the principal Order;\n(b) the change is not a change that is required to be notified;\n(c) he knows that the change affects an entitlement of his to such rate relief; and\n(d) he fails to give a prompt notification of that change in the prescribed manner to the prescribed person.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) a notification of a change is prompt if, and only if, it is given as soon as reasonably practicable after the change occurs.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or to both.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 49 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/49",
    "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."
}