1. Subject to the provisions of this Order, all transferred provisions relating to rates which were in force immediately before 1st October 1973 shall, so far as not repealed by or under the 1972 Order or any other statutory provision, apply in relation to rates under this Order.N.I.
2. References in any transferred provision or other document to any rate which is a rate in lieu of which a rate under this Order is levied shall be construed as references to a rate under this Order.N.I.
3. References in any transferred provision or other document to rating authorities in connection with the levying of rates shall be construed as references to the Department and in any other connection shall be construed as references to the Department and district councils.N.I.
4. References in any transferred provision or other document to a hereditament, in connection with rates or the valuation of property for purposes of rates, shall be construed as references to a hereditament within the meaning of this Order.N.I.
5. References in any transferred provision or other document to the valuation lists or the revised valuation list shall be construed as references to the [F1NAV list or the capital value list].N.I.
F1Words in Sch. 16 Pt. II para. 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. 50; S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)
6. References in any transferred provision or other document, in connection with the valuation lists, to the areas of local authorities shall be construed as references to the districts of district councils.N.I.
7.—(1) Where the net annual value of any agricultural land, agricultural building or livestock or poultry building is relevant for the purposes of any transferred provision or other document, that value shall be deemed to be the amount which the Commissioner certifies would be entered in the valuation list as the net annual value of the land or building in question if it were a hereditament and if it were valued under the transferred provisions repealed by the 1972 Order.N.I.
(2) The Department may require the Commissioner to make charges, in accordance with a table of fees approved by the Department, for any certificate supplied by him under this paragraph.
8. A reference in any transferred provision or other document to the officer to whom the head of the Department has, for the time being, assigned for exercise and performance the functions transferred to the Department from the Commissioner of Valuation and Boundary Surveyor for Ireland (except a reference to such an officer in relation to functions of the Boundary Surveyor), and any reference which is to be construed as such a reference, shall be construed as a reference to the officer appointed, or deemed to have been appointed, under Article 36 as Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland.N.I.