Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2021 No. 110
Rates
The Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on 10th May 2021
Made 23rd April 2021
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1

The Department of Finance makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 7(1) and (3) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977.
The Department of Finance and Personnel was renamed the Department of Finance by section 1(4) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))
S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)
In accordance with Article 7(4) of that Order it has taken into consideration estimates of the amounts to be raised by district rates.
Article 7(4) was amended by Article 10 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2, to the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I. 22))

Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on the day after the day on which it is affirmed by resolution of the Assembly.

Application
2. This Order shall apply in respect of the year ending 31st March 2022.

Regional Rates
3. (1) The regional rate to be levied on the rateable net annual values of hereditaments shall be 27.90 pence in the pound.
(2) The regional rate to be levied on the rateable capital values of hereditaments shall be 0.4574 pence in the pound.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 23rd April 2021.
(L.S.)
Alan Brontë
A senior officer of the Department of Finance

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order fixes the amount of the regional rates for the year ending 31st March 2022. It fixes 27.90 pence in the pound as the amount of the regional rate to be levied on the rateable net annual values of hereditaments (“non-domestic regional rate”) and 0.4574 pence in the pound as the amount of the regional rate to be levied on the rateable capital values of hereditaments (“domestic regional rate”).
Hereditaments which are dwelling-houses, private garages and private storage premises have a rateable capital value. Hereditaments which are used partly for the purposes of a private dwelling have a rateable capital value and a rateable net annual value. All other hereditaments have a rateable net annual value.