PART IIIN.I.VALUATION

Valuation listsN.I.

New valuation listsN.I.

45.F1[(1) A new valuation list containing each general revaluation shall be prepared by the Commissioner and issued on or before 31st December in such year as the Department may by order subject to affirmative resolution specify.]

(2) A new valuation list shall come into force on 1st April next following the day on which the list was issued.

(3) Regulations may, with respect to new valuation lists,—

(a)prescribe the method of issuing the lists;

(b)provide for the notices that are to be given in connection with the issue of the lists;

(c)provide for the deposit in some suitable place, for record purposes, of certified copies of the lists.

(4) Any reference in Articles 41 to 44 to the valuation list includes a reference to a new valuation list.

(5) Where, after a new valuation list has been issued but before the date on which the list is to come into force, it appears to the district valuer that, by reason of a material change of circumstances which has occurred since the time of valuation, or it appears to the Commissioner that, by reason of any [F2 matter mentioned in Article 50(1)( a) or ( b)], the list needs to be altered in any respect in relation to any hereditament, the district valuer shall cause the list to be altered, or, as the case may be, the Commissioner shall alter the list accordingly before that date, and shall issue a certificate showing the alteration to—

(a)the Department;

(b)the district council; and

(c)the occupier of the hereditament.

(6) The omission from a new valuation list of any matter required by law to be included therein shall not of itself render anything contained in the list invalid.

(7) The Department may by order make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplemental provision as appears to the Department to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the coming into force of a new valuation list.

(8) An order under paragraph (7) may contain provisions modifying or repealing any transferred provision, including such a provision contained in or made under this Order, a personal or local Act or Measure or an Act or Measure confirming a provisional order.

(9) An order under paragraph (7) which contains provisions modifying or repealing any transferred provision contained in a public general Act or Measure shall be subject to affirmative resolution, and any other order made under that paragraph shall be subject to negative resolution.

(10) The Commissioner may, before the issue of the new valuation list, make all such changes (by way of apportionment and otherwise) in the list as are necessary for bringing the entries in the list into conformity with any transferred provision as modified by the order.

F1Art 45(1) substituted by 1981 NI 13 art. 8