Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

[F1 5.— (1) Article 31 (reduction of rates on certain hereditaments used for recreation) shall apply to a hereditament in respect of which a person is chargeable to rates under Article 25A if it appears to the Department that Article 31 will apply to the hereditament when it is next in occupation. N.I.

(2) Article 31 as it applies by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect as if for paragraphs (3) and (4) there were substituted the following paragraphs—

“(3) If it appears to the Department that the hereditament will when next in occupation be used solely for the purposes of a prescribed recreation, the reduction shall be effected by reducing the normal rate by [F2 80] per cent.

(4) If it appears to the Department that when next in occupation the hereditament will be shown in the [F3 NAV list] as having part of its net annual value apportioned to a part or parts of the hereditament used solely for the purposes of a prescribed recreation, the reduction shall be effected by computing separately—

(a) so much of the amount payable as will be referable to the part of the net annual value shown in the [F3 NAV list] as so apportioned, and

(b) so much of that amount as will be referable to the remainder of the net annual value,

and by reducing the normal rate, for the purpose of the computation mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), by [F2 80] per cent.”]

F1 2004 NI 4

F2 Words in Sch. 8A para. 5(2) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 45(3)(a); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)

F3 Words in Sch. 8A para. 5(2) substituted (1.4.2007) by Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2954 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(3), 39, Sch. 2 para. 45(3)(b); S.R. 2006/464, art. 2(4)