{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1977/2157",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Making of rates",
  "text": "(1) A regional rate shall be made by an order of the Department which shall be subject to affirmative resolution.\n(2) A district rate shall be made by a resolution of the district council.\n(3) An order or resolution making a rate shall specify the amount in the pound at which the rate is to be levied.\n(4) Before making an order making a regional rate for any year, the Department shall take into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by means of district rates for that year.\n(5) A rate shall be treated as duly made notwithstanding that the order or resolution making the rate—\n(a) is made without reference to individual hereditaments;\n(b) does not take account of any exemption or relief in respect of rating conferred in relation to hereditaments of any description or particular hereditaments;\n(c) is made, or in the case of an order comes into operation, after the beginning of the year for which the rate is made.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 NI 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 7 modified (with effect in accordance with art. 4(1) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government (Boundaries) (2008 Act) (Commencement, Transitional Provision and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/238), art. 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 7 applied in part (6.12.2022) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 (c. 48), ss. 11(4), 14(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisi/2006/2954",
      "affecting_title": "The Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/2157/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:19.076889+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."
}