Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009

  1. Introductory Text

  2. Temporary reduction of rates for specified hereditaments

    1. 1.Temporary reduction of rates for specified hereditaments

  3. Energy efficiency

    1. 2.Zero-carbon or low-carbon homes

    2. 3.Energy efficiency

  4. Industrial hereditaments

    1. 4.Exemption for industrial hereditaments

  5. Deferred payment of rates on dwellings

    1. 5.Agreements for deferred payment of rates on dwellings

  6. Unoccupied hereditaments

    1. 6.Extension of liability for unoccupied hereditaments to dwelling-houses, etc.

  7. Capital value – assumptions

    1. 7.Capital value of hereditaments: change of state of property to be disregarded

  8. Public utility undertakings

    1. 8.Repeal of exception from general valuation reference date and other special provisions

  9. Social security information

    1. 9.Sharing of social security information

    2. 10.Unauthorised disclosure of information relating to particular persons

    3. 11.Provisions relating to sharing of social security information extended to the Department

  10. Miscellaneous

    1. 12.Power to alter existing agreements under Article 21 of the principal Order

    2. 13.Certain regulations under Article 23A of the principal Order to be subject to negative resolution instead of affirmative resolution

    3. 14.Removal of exclusion of private dwellings from deemed completion days for new buildings

    4. 15.Temporary power to make grants to councils relating to maximum or minimum capital value changes

  11. Supplementary

    1. 16.Interpretation

    2. 17.Minor and consequential amendments

    3. 18.Repeals

    4. 19.Commencement

    5. 20.Short title

  12. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

      1. The principal Order

        1. 1.In Article 2(2) (interpretation), after the definition of “public utility...

        2. 2.In Article 9 (levying of rates), in paragraph (3), for...

        3. 3.In Article 37 (hereditaments), after paragraph (4) add the following...

        4. 4.In Article 50 (alteration in valuation list by Commissioner), head...

        5. 5.In Article 52 (procedure on appeal to Commissioner), in paragraph...

        6. 6.In Article 56 (supplementary provisions as to alterations, etc.), in...

        7. 7.In Schedule 8A (unoccupied hereditaments), in paragraph 1(1), at the...

        8. 8.In Schedule 8B (new buildings (completion days)), for paragraph 9...

        9. 9.Entry 9 (sewers, etc.) in Schedule 11 (properties not to...

        10. 10.In Part 1 of Schedule 12 (basis of valuation –...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      REPEALS