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Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977
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- 1977 No. 2157 (N.I. 28)
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[F1Completion noticesN.I.
1.—(1) If it appears to the Department that the work remaining to be done on a new building is such that the building can reasonably be expected to be completed within three months, the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.N.I.
(2) If it appears to the Department that a new building has been completed the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.
(3) The Department may withdraw a completion notice by serving on the person entitled to possession of the building a subsequent completion notice.
(4) Where an appeal under paragraph 4 has been brought against a completion notice, the power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall only be exercisable with the consent in writing of the person entitled to possession of the building to which the notice relates.
(5) The power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall cease to be exercisable in relation to a completion notice once a day has been determined under this Schedule as the completion day in relation to the building to which the notice relates.
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[F3(9) The Department shall not serve a completion notice in relation to a building of a prescribed class.]
F2Sch. 8B para. 1(6)-(8) repealed (1.10.2011) by Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8), ss. 14, 18, 19(1), Sch. 2; S.R. 2011/16, art. 2(2), Sch. 2
2.—(1) A completion notice shall—N.I.
(a)specify the building to which it relates; and
(b)state the day which the Department proposes as the completion day in relation to the building.
(2) Where at the time a completion notice is served it appears to the Department that the building to which the notice relates is not completed, the Department shall propose as the completion day such day, not later than 3 months from the day on which the notice is served, as the Department considers is a day by which the building can reasonably be expected to be completed.
(3) Where at the time a completion notice is served it appears to the Department that the building to which the notice relates has been completed, the Department shall propose as the completion day the day on which the notice is served.]
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