The Property (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 252 (C. 23)

PROPERTY

The Property (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

23rd July 2002

The Minister of Finance and Personnel in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 1(2) of the Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(1) and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Property (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002.

Appointed day

2.  The following provisions of the Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 shall come into operation on 29th July 2002:—

(a) article 35 (Enlargement of leasehold estate subject to no rent); and

(b) in Schedule 5 the following repeals:

(i) section 65 of the Conveyancing Act 1881(2);

(ii) section 11 of the Conveyancing Act 1882(3).

Dr. Sean Farren

Minister of Finance and Personnel

Dated 23rd July 2002.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 29th July 2002 the provisions of the Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which deal with the enlargement of a leasehold estate subject to no or a nominal rent, and associated repeals. A new Article 35A of the Order is inserted by the Ground Rents Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 which comes into operation on the same date (The Ground Rents (2001) Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 251 (C. 22)). As a result of this Commencement Order there are no remaining provisions of the Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 still to be commenced.

This third and final Commencement Order brings into operation the remaining provisions of the 1997 Order other than those already commenced or repealed by the Ground Rents Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Other provisions of the Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 were brought into operation on 1st September 1997 by the Property (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order Northern Ireland 1997 (S.R. 1997 No. 328 (C. 19)), and the Property (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 461 (C. 34)), (Commencement date 10th January 2000).

(1)

S.I. 1997/1179 (N.I. 8); see 1998 Act c. 47 Schedule 12, paragraph 11

(2)

1881 c. 41

(3)

1882 c. 39