Rates (Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2006 No. 468

RATES

Rates (Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

23rd November 2006

Coming into operation

1st December 2006

The Department of Finance and Personnel(1) makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 40(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006(2):

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Rates (Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2006.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the 2006 Order” means the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.

Transitional provisions

3.—(1) Notwithstanding the bringing into operation by the Rates (Amendment) (2006 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006(3) of the provisions of the 2006 Order set out in the Schedule on 1st December 2006, those provisions shall not have effect in relation to a rate for any year ending before 1st April 2007.

(2) Article 13 of the 2006 Order shall not have any effect before the date of the coming into operation of Article 11(1) of that Order in relation to the valuation list which is in force on the date of the coming into operation of this Order.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 23rd November 2006

Brian McClure

A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

Article 3(1)

SCHEDULE Provisions of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 which shall not have effect in relation to a rate for any year ending before 1st April 2007

Provisions of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006	Subject matter
Article 3	Regional rate and district rate
Article 5	Rateable values
Article 8	Basis of valuation
Article 11(2)(c) and (d), (3) and (4)	General provisions as to valuation lists
Article 12	New valuation lists
The following paragraphs of Schedule 2 and Article 39 in so far as it relates to them—	Amendments to the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(4)
Paragraphs 2(1), (4), (6), (7), (9), 3, 4, 6, 7(1) and (2), 18(1), (2)(b), (3) and (4), 24, 41 to 43 and 48(1), (3), (4) and (6)
In Schedule 3 the following entries and Article 41 in so far as it relates to them—	Repeals
the entries relating to the heading to Article 5 of, Article 41 of and Schedules 5, 6 and 12 to, the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;
the entry relating to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979(5)
the entry relating to the Local Government, Planning and Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(6)
the entry relating to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983(7)
the entry relating to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(8)
the entry relating to the Rates (Capital Values, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006(9)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides—

(a) that notwithstanding the bringing into operation by the Rates (Amendment) (2006 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006 No. 464 (c. 28)) of the provisions of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 set out in the Schedule to this Order on 1st December 2006, those provisions shall not have effect in relation to a rate for any financial year ending before 1st April 2007 (Article 3(1));

(b) that Article 13 of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 shall not have any effect before the date of the coming into operation of Article 11(1) of that Order in relation to the valuation list in force on the date of the coming into operation of this Order; Article 13 contains new provisions about access to valuation lists (Article 3(2)).

(1)

Formerly the Department of Finance; see S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3

(2)

S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)

(3)

S.R. 2006 No. 464 (c. 28)

(4)

1977/2157 (N.I. 28)

(5)

S.I. 1979/297 (N.I. 4)

(6)

S.I.1981/437 (N.I. 3)

(7)

S.I. 1983/421 (N.I. 7)

(8)

S.I.1996/3162 (N.I. 25)

(9)

S.I. 2006/611 (N.I. 4)