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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2014 No. 67

Rates

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Made

5th March 2014

Coming into operation

1st April 2014

The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 37(4) and (5) of, and paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to, the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2014.

Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

2.  For Part 1 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(2) there shall be substituted the Part 1 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 5th March 2014

(L.S.)

Brian McClure

A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEPart 1 to be substituted for Part 1 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Regulation 3

PART 1Telecommunication hereditaments

Company name
Atlas Communications NI Limited
Cable & Wireless UK Ltd.
Eircom UK Ltd.
Hibernia Atlantic (UK) Limited
Mercury Communications Limited
Virgin Media Limited
Vodafone Limited

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule to those Regulations shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.

These Regulations substitute the list of telecommunications companies in Part 1 of the Schedule to the 2010 Regulations to take account of new entrants to the telecommunications market in Northern Ireland.

(1)

S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); paragraph (4) of Article 37 was substituted by Article 6(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)); paragraph (5) of Article 37 was inserted by section 17 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (2009 c. 8 (N.I.)); and in Schedule 12 in Part I, paragraph 5 was inserted by Article 12(a) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)).