2016 No. 26

Rates

The Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 31C of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 19771.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2016.

Definition of “qualifying year”2

In the definition of “qualifying year” in regulation 2 of the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20102 for the words “1st April 2016” there shall be substituted the words “1st April 2017”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 29th January 2016.

seal_r00001Brian McClureA senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the definition of “qualifying year” in the Rates (Small Business Hereditament Relief) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 to provide for an extension of the small business rate relief scheme until 31st March 2017.