{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-payment-of-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-payment-of-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/149",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Payment of Interest) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-payment-of-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1977 Order” means the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n“business day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in Northern Ireland;\n“crediting” means crediting against subsequent liability to a rate; and\n“repayment” means a repayment or, as the case may be, a crediting by the Department of any amount paid on account of a rate or any amount paid pursuant to an agreement under Regulations under Article 29A of the 1977 Order, but does not include a repayment or crediting of any amount under —\n(a)Article 11(4)(b), 30D or 33B of the 1977 Order;\n(b)a scheme under section 122(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 for the provision of housing benefit; or\n(c)a rate relief scheme under Article 30A of the 1977 Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2010) by The Rates (Payment of Interest) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/38), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971c.80"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 33B was inserted by Article 8 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order, S.I. 2004/703 (N.I.4) and was amended by Article 10 of the Rates (Capital Values, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 S.I. 2006/611 (N.I.4) and by paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992c.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 30A was inserted by Article 14 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/149/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:51.665700+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."
}