# The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, Regulation 53: Legal proceedings

Extent: N.I.

(1) Any person authorised by the Department or the Executive in that behalf may conduct any proceedings under any provision of the principal Order relating to rate relief before a magistrates’ court, although not a barrister or solicitor.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in any statutory provision proceedings for an offence under the principal Order relating to rate relief may be begun at any time within the period of 3 months from the date on which evidence, sufficient in the opinion of the Department or the Executive to justify a prosecution for the offence, comes to its knowledge or within a period of 12 months from the commission of the offence, whichever period last expires.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) a certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Minister in charge of the Department or by a senior officer of the Department or by a member of the Executive or by an officer of the Executive authorised by it to act for the purposes of this regulation as to the date on which such evidence as is mentioned in paragraph (2) came to its or the Executive’s knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that date.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/204/regulation/53 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-53
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