{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-unoccupied-hereditaments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-unoccupied-hereditaments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Unoccupied Hereditaments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-unoccupied-hereditaments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Rates (Unoccupied Hereditaments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "text": "In the Schedule to the Rates (Unoccupied Hereditaments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011, after paragraph 19 there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“20. (1) Subject to the conditions in sub-paragraph (2), the hereditament is located in an area included within a scheme made under Article 26 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and the person entitled to possession of the hereditament has qualified for payment from a council assisted under that scheme.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies only to a hereditament which—\n(a) is unoccupied due to flooding following heavy rain or tidal surge;\n(b) has been so unoccupied for a continuous period not less than four weeks; and\n(c) when last in occupation was the only or principle residence of the person now entitled to possession of the hereditament.\n(3) Where sub-paragraph (2)(b) applies the exclusion for the unoccupied hereditament will be up to a maximum of six months per incident.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2011 No. 36 as amended by S.R.2013 No. 47, S.R. 2013 No. 80 and S.R. 2014 No. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/810 (N.I. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/231/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:50:46.424235+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."
}