2015 No. 48
The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015
Made
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on
Coming into operation
The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 31D(15) and (16) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 M1.
Citation and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2015.
Temporary rebate for certain previously unoccupied hereditaments etc.2
In Article 31D of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (temporary rebate for certain previously unoccupied hereditaments etc.)—
F1a
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F1b
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c
in paragraph (5) for the definition of “F” there shall be substituted the following definition-
“F” means the first person to occupy the hereditament after the continuous period of unoccupancy mentioned in paragraph (3)(b);
Revocation3
The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) Order 2013 M2 is revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 10th February 2015
S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 31D was inserted by section 2 of the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c.1 (N.I.)) and by S.R. 2013 No. 15