The Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2010 No. 21

Rates

The Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Made

28th January 2010

Coming into operation

1st April 2010

The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 23A of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2010.

Amendment of the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

2.  For Schedule 1 to the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(2) there shall be substituted the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

3.  The Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(3) are revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 28th January 2010

Brian McClure

A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE Schedule substituted for Schedule 1 to the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Regulation 4

“SCHEDULE 1 Prescribed Registered Housing Associations

• Abbeyfield UK (NI) Ltd.

• Alpha Housing Association (NI) Ltd.

• Ark Housing Association (NI) Ltd.

• Ballynafeigh Housing Association Ltd.

• Belfast Community Housing Association Ltd.

• Broadway Housing Association Ltd.

• Clanmil Housing Association Ltd.

• Connswater Homes Ltd.

• Covenanter Residential Association Ltd.

• Craigowen Housing Association Ltd.

• Dungannon & District Housing Association Ltd.

• Filor Housing Association Ltd.

• Flax Housing Association Ltd.

• Fold Housing Association Ltd.

• Gosford Housing Association (Armagh) Ltd.

• Grove Housing Association Ltd.

• Habinteg Housing Association (Ulster) Ltd.

• Hearth Housing Association Ltd.

• Helm Housing Association Ltd.

• Newington Housing Association (1975) Ltd.

• North & West Housing Ltd.

• Oaklee Housing Association Ltd.

• Open Door Housing Association (Northern Ireland) Ltd.

• Rural Housing Association Ltd.

• SHAC Housing Association Ltd.

• South Ulster Housing Association Ltd.

• St Matthews Housing Association Ltd.

• Triangle Housing Association Ltd.

• Trinity Housing (NI) Ltd.

• Ulidia Housing Association Ltd.

• Wesley Housing Association Ltd.

• Woodvale & Shankill Housing Association Ltd.”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) provide, subject to exceptions, for a person to be chargeable to rates in respect of a domestic property owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive or a housing association listed in Schedule 1 to the Regulations on the basis of a social sector value rather than on the basis of the property’s rateable capital value. In determining a social sector value, the Department of Finance and Personnel is under a duty, by virtue of Article 23A(2) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, to ensure that the amount of rates chargeable is such proportion of any rent payable in respect of the property as the Department considers appropriate.

These Regulations substitute the list of housing associations in Schedule 1 to the 2007 Regulations in consequence of certain housing associations having amalgamated, ceased to exist or changed their name.

(1)

S.I.1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 23A was inserted by Article 7 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18))

(2)

SR. 2007 No. 86 as amended by S.R. 2009 No. 7

(3)

S.R. 2009 No. 7