2016 No. 17
Rates

The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on 22nd February 2016
Coming into operation
The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 42(1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 19771.

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2016.

Definition of “relevant year”2.

For the purposes of the definition of “relevant year” in Article 42(1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 the Department of Finance and Personnel hereby specifies the later date of 1st April 2017.

Revocation3.

The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 20152 is revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 22nd January 2016

(L.S.)
Brian McClure
A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 42(1F) and (1G) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (“the 1977 Order”) provides that there shall be distinguished in the NAV list as wholly exempt from rates any automatic telling machine which is situated in a rural area during a financial year ending before such date as is specified by an Order made by the Department of Finance and Personnel. 1st April 2017 is specified by this Order.

This Order also revokes the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 which specified 1st April 2016 for the purposes of Article 42(1F) and (1G) of the 1977 Order.