{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-unoccupied-hereditaments-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/36",
  "legislation_title": "Rates (Unoccupied Hereditaments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-unoccupied-hereditaments-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1989 Order” means the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;\n“the 2003 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“adapted” means suitable for use, whether altered for the purpose or otherwise;\n“completion day”, in relation to a hereditament, means a completion day determined under Article 25B of, and Schedule 8B to, the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 in relation to a building which comprises the whole or part of that hereditament;\n“public body” means—\n(a) a body established by or under a statutory provision; or\n(b) a department of the Government of the United Kingdom;\n“qualifying industrial hereditament” means any hereditament other than a retail hereditament in relation to which all buildings comprised in the hereditament are constructed or adapted—\n(a) in the course of a trade or business; and\n(b) for one or more of the following purposes, or one or more such purposes and one or more purposes ancillary thereto—\n(i) the manufacture, repair or adaptation of goods or materials;\n(ii) the working or processing of minerals;\n(iii) the generation of electricity; and\n“retail hereditament” means any hereditament where any building or part of a building comprised in the hereditament is constructed or adapted for the purpose of the retail provision of goods or services on or from the hereditament.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a hereditament which has been unoccupied becomes occupied on any day and becomes unoccupied again on the expiration of a period of less than six weeks beginning with and including that day, then for the purposes of ascertaining whether the hereditament has been continuously unoccupied for a period mentioned in paragraph 1 or 3 of the Schedule, it shall be treated as having been unoccupied on that day and throughout the period.\n(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to any part of a hereditament in respect of which it appears that, when next in use, it will be used for the purposes of a private dwelling.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Schedule, a hereditament which has not previously been occupied shall be treated as becoming unoccupied—\n(a) on the completion day; or\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, on the day on which the hereditament is first shown in a valuation list.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph 2 of the Schedule, a hereditament which has not previously been occupied shall be treated as becoming unoccupied—\n(a) on the completion day; or\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, on the day on which the hereditament is first shown in a valuation list,\nexcept that where a day mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) is before 1st October 2011, the hereditament shall be treated as becoming unoccupied on 1st October 2011.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.10.2011, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 25B and Schedule 8B were inserted by Article 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 and were amended by Article 14 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to, the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/36/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:23.470718+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."
}