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The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

S.R. 2007/244 · Made 18 April 2007

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This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2007 No. 203 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Rule.

Rates

Made 18th April 2007

Coming into operation 19th April 2007

The Department of Finance and Personnelf1, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 30A of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977f2, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Formerly the Department of Finance; see S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3

f2

S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 30A was inserted by Article 14 of S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Modification of Part V and Schedule 4
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 19th April 2007.

2Modification of Part V and Schedule 4

In regulation 17(2)(c) of the Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007f1 (modification of Schedule 4 to Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006f2 (applicable amounts)) shall be amended as follows—

(a)

for head (i) there shall be substituted—

“(i)

for a person to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies, by 15%;”;

(b)

for head (ii) there shall be substituted—

“(ii)

for a person to whom sub-paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, by 10%,”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 18th April 2007

L.S.

Brian McClure

A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (“the principal Regulations”) which applies the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006 No. 405) (“the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations”) for the purposes of the principal Regulations as they apply for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with modifications. They are made in consequence of a defect in the principal Regulations and will be issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Regulations.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 17(2)(c) of the principal Regulations which modifies Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (applicable amounts) to correct an error in relation to the calculation of the personal allowance in respect of a person’s entitlement to rate relief so that an enhancement of 15% applies for a single person and an enhancement of 10% applies for a couple.