Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

Revision of F1 . . . valuation list, and alteration, by district valuer N.I.

49.—(1) Subject to [F2 paragraph (6) and Articles 49A and] 50(3), where an application is served by any person on the district valuer for revision of [F3 a valuation list] in relation to any hereditament, or where the district valuer, without such an application, considers that [F3 a valuation list] ought to be revised in relation to any hereditament,—

(a) he shall revise the list so far as it relates to that hereditament, or, if that hereditament is not already included in the list, he shall revise the list with a view to including it; and

(b) if, in consequence of the revision, he considers that any alteration (whether, where an application has been made, it is the alteration applied for or some other) should be made in [F4 that or any other list] , he shall cause that alteration to be made.

(2) Where the district valuer causes an alteration to be made F5 . . . under paragraph (1)( b), he shall serve certificates of the alteration on the persons mentioned in Article 56(8).

(3) Where the district valuer, on completing a revision made following an application served on him under this Article, decides that no alteration should be made F6 . . . , he shall serve on the applicant notice of his decision.

(4) The district valuer shall complete any revision made following an application served on him under this Article within the period of three months from the date on which he received the application, or within such further period or periods (none of which shall exceed three months) as he specifies in a notice, stating the reason for the delay, served by him on the applicant before the expiration of the immediately preceding period.

(5) Where the date referred to in paragraph (4) falls before the first anniversary of the coming into force of [F7 the valuation list in question] , that paragraph shall have effect as if the first reference in it to three months were a reference to six months.

[F8 (6) If the district valuer decides that an application served on him is frivolous or vexatious—

(a) he shall serve on the applicant notice of his decision; and

(b) sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to that application.]

F1 Word in art. 49 heading repealed (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, 41, Sch. 2 para. 30(6), Sch. 3; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F2 Words in art. 49(1) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 30(2)(a); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F3 Words in art. 49(1) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 30(2)(b); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F4 Words in art. 49(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 30(2)(c); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F5 Words in art. 49(2) repealed (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, 41, Sch. 2 para. 30(3), Sch. 3; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F6 Words in art. 49(3) repealed (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, 41, Sch. 2 para. 30(4), Sch. 3; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F7 Words in art. 49(5) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 30(5); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F8 Art. 49(6) added (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 30; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)