Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
RATES
Made
28th February 2001
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly
20th March 2001
Coming into operation
1st April 2001
The Department of Finance and Personnel(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 2(2), 7(1) and 27(4) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and having taken into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by means of district rates as required by Article 7(4) of that Order, hereby makes the following Order:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Regional Rates) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2001.
(2) In this Order—
“specified hereditament” means a hereditament of a type specified under Article 3 of the New Valuation List (Time and Class of Hereditaments) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995(3);
“unspecified hereditament” means a hereditament which is not a specified hereditament.
2. The regional rates for the year ending 31st March 2002 shall be 30·42 pence in the pound in respect of specified hereditaments and 192·95 pence in the pound in respect of unspecified hereditaments.
3. The amount by which the normal regional rate fixed for the year ending on 31st March 2002 under Article 2 is to be reduced in respect of unspecified hereditaments for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 27 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 shall be 69·15 pence.
4. The Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001(4) is hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 28th February 2001.
L.S.
V. N. Hewitt
A Senior Officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order fixes the amounts of the regional rates for the year ending 31st March 2002. The Order fixes 30·42 pence in the pound as the amount of the regional rate in respect of those hereditaments (referred to as specified hereditaments) which are not dwelling houses, private garages or private storage premises and 192·95 pence in the pound in respect of those hereditaments (referred to as unspecified hereditaments) which are.
The Order also fixes 69·15 pence as the amount by which the normal regional rate is reduced in respect of unspecified hereditaments and hereditaments which, though not unspecified hereditaments, are used partly for the purposes of unspecified hereditaments.
This Order revokes and replaces the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001. The provisions of that Order were to come into operation on 14th May 2001. Under this Order, similar provisions are brought into operation on 1st April 2001.
Formerly the Department of Finance. See S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3
S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28) as amended by S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25) and by S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I. 22)