The Rate Relief (Education, Training and Leaving Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Grant of Rate Relief

6.—(1) Subject to the following provisions and to the condition in Article 30B(2) of the 1977 Order, a person shall not be chargeable to rates in respect of a hereditament for any period during which—

(a) the hereditament is used wholly for the purposes of a private dwelling or (not being a hereditament which comprises a hall of residence distinguished in the NAV list as wholly exempt from rates) is otherwise wholly used for living accommodation; and

(b) every occupier of it qualifies for rate relief and, subject to paragraph (4), occupies the hereditament as his only or principal residence.

(2) For the purposes of Article 30B(4) of the 1977 Order a person undertaking a designated course or approved course of training shall be regarded for the purposes of these Regulations as occupying a hereditament as his only or principal residence—

(a) for a year if throughout that year he satisfied the conditions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) or (b), as the case may be, and occupies it as his only or principal residence for not less than 24 weeks in that year; or

(b) for any quarter if throughout that quarter he satisfies the conditions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) or (b), as the case may be, and occupies it as his only or principal residence for not less than 6 weeks in that quarter.

(3) For the purposes of Article 30B(3)(a)(ii) of the 1977 Order—

(a) the conditions set out in regulation 7 are prescribed in relation to education;

(b) the conditions set out in regulation 8 are prescribed in relation to training; and

(c) the conditions set out in regulation 9 are prescribed in relation to leaving care.

(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(b), where an occupier of a hereditament has parental responsibility for another occupier of the hereditament, that other occupier need not occupy the hereditament as his only or principal residence.