{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-8B/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977/schedule-8B/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1977/2157",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-northern-ireland-order-1977",
  "path": "schedule/8B/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Department that the work remaining to be done on a new building is such that the building can reasonably be expected to be completed within three months, the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.\n(2) If it appears to the Department that a new building has been completed the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.\n(3) The Department may withdraw a completion notice by serving on the person entitled to possession of the building a subsequent completion notice.\n(4) Where an appeal under paragraph 4 has been brought against a completion notice, the power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall only be exercisable with the consent in writing of the person entitled to possession of the building to which the notice relates.\n(5) The power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall cease to be exercisable in relation to a completion notice once a day has been determined under this Schedule as the completion day in relation to the building to which the notice relates.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) The Department shall not serve a completion notice in relation to a building of a prescribed class.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2004 NI 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8B para. 1(6)-(8) repealed (1.10.2011) by Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8), ss. 14, 18, 19(1), Sch. 2; S.R. 2011/16, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 8B para. 1(9) added (1.12.2006) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 27; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1977/2157/schedule/8B/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}