The Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

Transitional rate relief

18.—(1) Article 33A of the principal Order (transitional rate relief) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) for the words from the beginning to “of the new valuation list,” there shall be substituted the words “Where this Article applies,”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), for the words “any such difference in the net annual value” there shall be substituted the words “the new net annual value or the new capital value”.

(3) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(2) This Article applies where, on the coming into force of a new valuation list—

(a) a new net annual value; or

(b) a new capital value,

is ascribed to a specified hereditament in that list.

(3) In this Article—

“a new capital value”, in relation to a specified hereditament, means—

(a)

a capital value which differs from the capital value ascribed to the hereditament in an old list;

(b)

a capital value where no capital value was ascribed to the hereditament in an old list;

“new net annual value”, in relation to a specified hereditament, means—

(a)

a net annual value which differs from the net annual value ascribed to the hereditament in an old list;

(b)

a net annual value where no net annual value was ascribed to the hereditament in an old list;

“old list” means a valuation list in force immediately before the coming into force of the new valuation list referred to in paragraph (2) (including a valuation list which continues to have effect thereafter);

“specified hereditament” means a hereditament of such a class as may be specified in an order under paragraph (1).”.