Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

Appeal to Commissioner against alteration of, or decision not to alter, the valuation list, or review by Commissioner of certain alterations made by him in the list. N.I.

51.—(1) [F1 Any person, other than the Department[F2 of the Environment or the Department of Finance and Personnel], who is aggrieved by an alteration which the district valuer has caused to be made in the valuation list, or any person who has served on the district valuer an application for revision of the valuation list and who is aggrieved by a decision of the district valuer not to cause the valuation list to be altered in consequence of the application] may, within twenty-eight days from the date of service on him of the certificate of the alteration, or, as the case may be, of the notice of the decision, appeal to the Commissioner against the alteration or decision.

(2) Any person, other than the Department[F2 of the Environment or the Department of Finance and Personnel], who is aggrieved by an alteration made in the valuation list by the Commissioner under Article 50(1)( a)(i) or ( b) may, within twenty-eight days from the date of service on him of the certificate of the alteration, apply to the Commissioner for a review of the alteration; and in the succeeding provisions of this Order any reference to an appeal to the Commissioner includes a reference to an application to him for a review under this paragraph or, as the case may require, to such a review, and references to an appellant or to hearing or determining an appeal shall be construed accordingly.

(3) An appeal to the Commissioner shall be instituted by a notice of appeal, signed by the appellant, stating—

(a) the alteration desired or objected to;

(b) the reasons for desiring or objecting to the alteration; and

(c) where the appellant is not the owner, or is not the occupier, of the hereditament, the name and address of the owner, or, as the case may require, of the occupier or of both.

(4) The appellant shall, within the period of twenty-eight days mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2) (whichever is applicable), serve a copy of the notice of appeal on—

(a) the occupier of the hereditament to which the appeal relates, where not the appellant; and

(b) the owner of the hereditament, where he is not the occupier or the appellant.

(5) The appellant may, at any time before the Commissioner's decision on the appeal has been issued, abandon the appeal by serving a notice in that behalf on the Commissioner.

F1 1979 NI 4

F2 1982 NI 6