Introductory Text
PART I INTRODUCTORY
1.Title and commencement
2.Interpretation
PART II GENERAL
Regional rate and district rate
3.Regional rate and district rate
4.Police purposes part of the regional rate
Rateable values
5.Rateable values
6.Liability to be rated according to rateable values
7.Liability to be rated in respect of hereditaments owned by the Housing Executive, etc.
8.Basis of valuation
Payment by instalments
9.Right to pay rates by instalments
Deferred payment of rates
10.Agreements for deferred payment of rates on dwellings
PART III VALUATION LISTS
11.General provisions as to valuation lists
12.New valuation lists
13.Access to valuation lists
PART IV RELIEFS AND EXEMPTIONS ETC.
Rate relief
14.Rate relief scheme
Persons under 18 and persons in education and training or leaving care
15.Persons under 18 and persons in education and training or leaving care
Persons with a disability
16.“Disability”
17.Rate rebates for certain hereditaments with special facilities for persons with a disability
Transitional relief
18.Transitional rate relief
Charitable exemptions
19.Extension of exemption relating to sale of goods donated to a charity
20.Extension of charitable exemption for clergy residences
Unoccupied hereditaments
21.Power to prescribe exemption where hereditament has both a capital value and a net annual value
22.Power to remove exemption for unoccupied dwelling-houses, etc.
23.Power to prescribe reduction in amount payable
Former agricultural land, etc.
24.Reduction of rates on former agricultural land, etc.
Other exemptions
25.Exemption for automatic telling machines in rural areas
26.Power to remove exemption for private dwellings from completion notices
27.Power to extend exemption from completion notices
Reduction of regional rate on dwellings
28.Abolition of reduction of regional rate on dwellings
PART V APPLICATIONS AND APPEALS
Valuation Tribunal
29.The Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal
Applications under Article 49 of the principal Order
30.Frivolous or vexatious applications
31.Transfer of application from the district valuer to the Commissioner
Appeals to the Commissioner under Article 51 of the principal Order
32.Power to transfer appeal to the Lands Tribunal not to apply in prescribed cases
Appeals from the Commissioner and the Valuation Tribunal
33.Appeals from the Commissioner and the Valuation Tribunal
PART VI MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
Payment of interest
34.Payment of interest
Rating of owners instead of occupiers
35.Rating of owners instead of occupiers in certain cases
Powers to require information
36.Power to require information about occupiers of hereditaments in capital value list, etc.
37.Power to require information for valuation list purposes
Powers of entry
38.Powers of entry
Amendments
39.Amendments
Transitional and consequential provisions, etc.
40.Power to make transitional and consequential provisions, etc.
Repeals
41.Repeals
Signature
SCHEDULES:
Schedule 1
Schedule to be inserted in principal Order as Schedule 9B
Schedule 2
Amendments
Schedule 3
Repeals
Explanatory Note