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The Rates (Exclusion from Service of Completion Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

S.R. 2007/120 · Made 1 March 2007

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Made 1st March 2007

Coming into operation 1st April 2007

The Department of Finance and Personnelf1, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 25B(1) of, and paragraph 1(9) of Schedule 8B to, 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 25B and Schedule 8B were inserted by Article 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order (S.I. 2004/703 (N.I. 4)) and paragraph 1(9) of Schedule 8B was inserted by Article 27 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18))

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Hereditaments excluded from service of completion notices
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Exclusion from Service of Completion Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2007.

2Hereditaments excluded from service of completion notices

(1)

The class of building prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(9) of Schedule 8B to the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 consists of any building in respect of which the person entitled to possession is a person which—

(a)

is a company limited by guarantee within the meaning of Article 12(2) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986f1;

(b)

is funded in respect of its capital costs, in whole or in part, by a public body; and

(c)

provides accommodation and support services for a trade or business.

(2)

In paragraph (1) public body means—

(a)

a body established by or under a statutory provision; or

(b)

a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 1st March 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 prescribe a class of building in respect of which the Department of Finance and Personnel is excluded from serving a completion notice for the purposes of the unoccupied rating provisions of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977.