Power to prescribe reduction in amount payableN.I.
23. For paragraph 2 of Schedule 8A to the principal Order (reduction of 50 per cent. in amount payable in respect of certain unoccupied hereditaments) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“2.—(1) The amount which, apart from this paragraph, would be payable on account of a rate in respect of any hereditament by virtue of Article 25A shall be reduced by the appropriate percentage.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1) the “appropriate percentage” means in relation to any hereditament 50 per cent. or such other percentage as may be substituted in relation to that hereditament by an order made by the Department.
(3) The Department shall not make an order under sub-paragraph (2) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.”.