Prospective
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
RATES
Made
24th January 2005
To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000
Coming into operation
1st April 2005
The Department of Finance and Personnel(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 7(1) and 27(4) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and having taken into consideration estimates of the amounts required to be raised by means of district rates as required by Article 7(4)(3) of that Order, hereby makes the following Order:
Prospective
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2005.
(2) In this Order –
“specified hereditament” means a hereditament of a class specified by Article 3 of the New Valuation List (Time and Class of Hereditaments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000(4);
“unspecified hereditament” means a hereditament which is not a specified hereditament.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 1 in operation at 1.4.2005, see art. 1(1)
2. The regional rate to be levied for the year ending 31st March 2006 shall be 27·27 pence in the pound in respect of specified hereditaments and 219·61 pence in the pound in respect of unspecified hereditaments.
Commencement Information
I2Art. 2 in operation at 1.4.2005, see art. 1(1)
3. The amount by which the normal regional rate fixed for the year ending on 31st March 2006 under Article 2 is to be reduced in respect of unspecified hereditaments for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 27 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 shall be 53·08 pence.
Commencement Information
I3Art. 3 in operation at 1.4.2005, see art. 1(1)
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 24th January 2005.
L.S.
Brian McClure
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
Prospective
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order fixes the amounts of the regional rates for the year ending 31st March 2006. The Order fixes 27·27 pence in the pound as the amount of the regional rate in respect of those hereditaments (referred to as specified hereditaments) which are not dwelling-houses, private garages or private storage premises and 219·61 pence in the pound in respect of those hereditaments (referred to as unspecified hereditaments) which are.
The Order also fixes 53·08 pence as the amount by which the normal regional rate is reduced in respect of unspecified hereditaments and hereditaments which, though not unspecified hereditaments, are used partly for the purposes of unspecified hereditaments.
Formerly the Department of Finance. See S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3
S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)
Article 7(4) was amended by Article 10 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1998/3164 (N.I. 22)