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The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

S.R. 2020/161 · Made 29 July 2020

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Rates

Made 29th July 2020

Coming into operation 24th August 2020

The Department of Finance makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 37 (4), of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I.28); paragraph (4) of Article 37 was substituted by Article 6(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I.25)).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule
  5. 1Telecommunications hereditaments
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 24th August 2020.

2Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

For Part 1 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010f1 there shall be substituted the Part 1 set out in the Schedule.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 29th July 2020.

L.S.

Alan Brontë

A senior officer of the Department of Finance

1Telecommunications hereditaments

Company name
Atlas Communications NI Limited
B4B Telecoms Ltd.
Cable & Wireless UK Ltd.
Eircom UK Ltd.
Fibrus Ltd.
Hibernia Atlantic (UK) Limited
Mercury Communications Limited
The Internet Business Ltd, trading as ‘Tibus’
Virgin Media Limited
Vodafone Limited

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.

These Regulations substitute the list in Part 1 of the Schedule to the 2010 Regulations to take account of new entrants to the telecommunications market in Northern Ireland.