{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Entitlement to rate relief",
  "text": "A person is entitled to rate relief if—\n(a) he is liable to make payments in respect of a hereditament which he occupies as his home;\n(b) there is an appropriate maximum rate relief in his case; and\n(c) either—\n(i) he is, or if a claim for housing benefit were made would be, entitled to less than 100% housing benefit; or\n(ii) he is not, or if such a claim were made would not be, entitled to any housing benefit because his income exceeds the amount calculated in accordance with Part 5 (applicable amounts).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}