Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2016.
Temporary rebate for certain previously unoccupied hereditaments etc.
2. In Article 31D of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (temporary rebate for certain previously unoccupied hereditaments etc.)—
(a)in paragraph (2) for the words “1st April 2016” there shall be substituted the words “1st April 2017”; and
(b)in paragraph (3)(b) for the words “the four year period ending on 31st March 2016” there shall be substituted the words “the five year period ending on 31st March 2017”.
Revocation
3. Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article 2 of the Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) Order 2015(1) are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 22nd January 2016
(L.S.)
Brian McClure
A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel