The Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Amendment of the Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

3.—(1) The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) After regulation 2(1)(k) insert—

“(kza) as if the definition of “equity-sharing lease” was omitted;”.

(3) In regulation 17(2)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (d) for “.” substitute “;”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (d) insert—

“(e) as if in Part IV in paragraph 12(4)(2) for the amount specified in Column 2 there were substituted an amount equivalent to the amount increased by 20% and where the resultant figure is not a whole penny it shall be rounded to the nearest penny and 0.5 of a penny shall be rounded up.”.

(4) In regulation 19(2)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) as if—

(i) in paragraph 5A(1)(c) after “regulation 24”;

(ii) in paragraph 5A(3) after “regulation 21”;

(iii) in paragraph 8 after “regulation 31(8)(b)”;

(iv) in paragraph 9(3)(b) after “regulation 28(1)(c)”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation

19”;”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—

“(d) as if in paragraph 6 after “Schedule 6” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 19”;”.

(5) In regulation 32(j) for “regulations 83 to 85” substitute “regulation 82A, and regulations 83 to 85”.

(1)

S.R. 2007 No. 203 as amended by S.R. 2007 No. 244, S.R. 2008 No. 68, S.R. 2009 No. 339 and S.R. 2010 No. 194

(2)

The sum specified in paragraph 12(4) of Part IV of Schedule 4 to S.R. 2006 No. 406 was set in Schedule 8 to S.R. 2010 No. 118