PART IVGENERAL

Offences60.

(1)

If any person on whom a notice has been served under Article 22(2),F1 26 or F259 fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceedingF3 level 3 on the standard scale.

(2)

Where a person is convicted under paragraph (1) in respect of a failure to comply with a notice and the failure continues after the conviction, then, unless he has a reasonable excuse for the continuance of the failure, he shall be guilty of a further offence under paragraph (1) and shall be liable on summary conviction, in addition to the fine specified in that paragraph, to a fine not exceedingF3 level 1 on the standard scale for every day subsequent to the day on which he is first convicted of an offence under that paragraph on which the failure continues.

(3)

If any person F4for the purpose of any application under this Order or in response to a notice under Article 22(2)F5, 26 or 59, makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction F6. . . to a fine not exceedingF3 level 3 on the standard scaleF6. . . .

(4)

If any person F7. . . knowingly prevents any other person from doing on the land any act that the other person is authorised under ArticleF1 26A or 58 to do or obstructs the other person in doing any such act, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceedingF3 level 3 on the standard scale.

F8(5)

If any person fails without reasonable excuse to give any assistance which he is reasonably required to give under Article 26A or 58, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

Regulations61.

(1)

Regulations may—

(a)

prescribe the form of any valuation list, certificate, application, statement, return, notice or other document whatsoever which is required or authorised to be used under or for the purposes of this Order;

(b)

substitute for any period mentioned in ArticleF9. . . 13(1)( a)(ii), 49(4) or (5), F1051(1), (1A), (2) or (4), or 52(4A) or (4B) any other period; F11…

(bb)

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(c)

make provision with respect to the making of reviews under Article 55.

(1A)

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F14(2)

Regulations shall not be made under Article 18(2) or 29A or paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 F15or paragraph 12 of Part 1 of Schedule 12 unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.

(2A)

Regulations made F16under—

(a)

Article 23A F17, except those made under paragraph (a) of the definition of “hereditament in the social sector” in paragraph (3) of that Article F18;

(b)

Article 31(5A); or

(c)

paragraph (1)(b),

shall be subject to affirmative resolution.

(2B)

Regulations made under provisions of this Order other than those F19regulations to which paragraphs (2) and (2A) apply shall be subject to negative resolution.

F20Service of documents62.

(1)

The following documents, that is to say,—

(a)

a demand note under Article 9(4); and

(b)

a certificate under Article 49(2) of an alteration made F21. . . in F22a valuation list or a notice under Article 49(3) of a decision F21. . . that no alteration should be made in F22a valuation list ,

may be served on, respectively, the person charged with a rate and the persons mentioned in Article 56(8) or the person who applied for revision of the list by being sent to him or them by ordinary post F23or, in the case of a document specified in sub-paragraph (b), by means of an electronic communication.

(2)

A process under Part VI of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 for the recovery of any sum due to the Department F24. . . on account of a rate may be served—

(a)

by being sent by F25the Department by ordinary post; or

(b)

by any mode of service permitted by magistrates' courts rules.

(3)

In section 24(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (service of documents), as it applies to the service by post of such a note, certificate, notice or process, the word “registering” shall be omitted.

Amendments, transitional provisions, construction of references, savings and repeals63.

Para. (1), with Schedule 15, effects amendments

(2)

Schedule 16 (which largely re-enacts by reference to this Order transitional and saving provisions, and provisions for the construction of references, which were contained in provisions repealed by this Order) shall have effect.

Para.(3), with Schedule 17, effects repeals

(4)

In the application of section 29 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 to any repeal made by this Order, subsection (1) and paragraph ( a) of subsection (3) shall have effect as if the word “statutory”, wherever it occurs, were omitted.