Title and commencement1
1
This Order may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
2
This Order shall come into operation on the expiration of one month from the day on which it is made.
Interpretation2
The [1954 c. 33 (N.I.)] Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Service by post of process in proceedings for recovery of rates3
For Article 62 of the [1977 NI 28] Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (service of demand note, etc., by post) there shall be substituted the following Article—
Service 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 by the district valuer in the valuation list or a notice under Article 49(3) of a decision by the district valuer that no alteration should be made in the 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.
2
A process under Part VI of the [1981 NI 26] Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 for the recovery of any sum due to the Department of the Environment on account of a rate may be served—
a
by being sent by that 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.
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Art. 4‐Consequential repeal