The Rate Relief Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 General

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Claims

   1. 3. Claim for rate relief

   2. 4. Person unable to act

   3. 5. Time within which a claim for rate relief is to be made

   4. 6. Date of first entitlement to rate relief

   5. 7. Amendment of claim

   6. 8. Withdrawal of rate relief claim

   7. 9. Opting to end an award of rate relief

4. PART 3 Entitlement

   1. 10. Entitlement

   2. 11. Eligible rates

   3. 12. Calculation of eligible rates amount for the attribution period

5. PART 4 Revisions

   1. 13. Revisions

   2. 14. Date from which a revision takes effect

   3. 15. Duty to notify changes of circumstances

   4. 16. Calculation of entitlement in attribution period where a revision occurs

6. PART 5 Review and Appeals

   1. 17. Review

   2. 18. Appeals

7. PART 6 Suspension

   1. 19. Cases where a relevant authority may suspend

   2. 20. Making or restoring of payments suspended

8. PART 7 Payment and offsetting

   1. 21. Time and manner of payment

   2. 22. Offsetting

9. PART 8 Overpayments

   1. 23. Recoverable overpayments

   2. 24. Person from whom recovery may be sought

   3. 25. Methods of recovery

   4. 26. Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpayments

   5. 27. Overpayment of rate relief where there is no liability to pay rates

10. PART 9 Circumstances in which a claimant is or is not to be treated as occupying a hereditament as his home

    1. 28. The occupation condition

    2. 29. Claimant living in another hereditament during essential repairs

    3. 30. Claimant housed in two dwellings by a provider of social housing

    4. 31. Moving home: adaptations to new home for disabled person

    5. 32. Claimant living in another hereditament because of reasonable fear of violence

    6. 33. Moving in delayed by adaptations to a hereditament to meet disablement needs

    7. 34. Moving into a hereditament following stay in hospital or care home

11. PART 10 Treated as not occupying a hereditament

    1. 35. Periods of temporary absence exceeding 6 months

12. PART 11 Information

    1. 36. Supply and sharing of information

    2. 37. Recording of information received

13. PART 12 Consequential provisions

    1. 38. Consequential provisions

14. Signature

15. 1. SCHEDULE

       ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

       1. PART 1 Use of Electronic Communications

          1. 1. Use of electronic communications by the relevant authority or the Department

          2. 2. Conditions for the use of electronic communications by another person

          3. 3. Use of intermediaries

       2. PART 2 Evidential Provisions

          1. 4. Effect of delivering information by electronic communications

          2. 5. Proof of delivery

          3. 6. Proof of identity

          4. 7. Proof of content

16. Explanatory Note