1.—(1) If it appears to the Department that the work remaining to be done on a new building is such that the building can reasonably be expected to be completed within three months, the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.
(2) If it appears to the Department that a new building has been completed the Department may serve a completion notice on the person entitled to possession of the building.
(3) The Department may withdraw a completion notice by serving on the person entitled to possession of the building a subsequent completion notice.
(4) Where an appeal under paragraph 4 has been brought against a completion notice, the power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall only be exercisable with the consent in writing of the person entitled to possession of the building to which the notice relates.
(5) The power conferred by sub-paragraph (3) shall cease to be exercisable in relation to a completion notice once a day has been determined under this Schedule as the completion day in relation to the building to which the notice relates.
(6) [F1Except as provided by an order made by the Department, the] Department shall not serve a completion notice if it appears to the Department that the building is, or when next in use will be, used wholly for the purposes of a private dwelling.
[F2(7) The Department shall not make an order under sub-paragraph (6) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.
(8) An order under sub-paragraph (6) may contain such incidental, supplemental and transitional provisions as the Department considers necessary or expedient, including provisions modifying this Schedule.]
[F3(9) The Department shall not serve a completion notice in relation to a building of a prescribed class.]
F1Words in Sch. 8B para. 1(6) substituted (1.12.2006) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 26(2); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(2), Sch. 2