LegalizeThe Rates (Housing Executive) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011
Made: 28th February 2011
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on: 21st March 2011
Coming into operation: 1st April 2011
The Department of Finance and Personnel makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 22(4C) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00001].
Citation and commencement
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This Order may be cited as the Rates (Housing Executive) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2011.
Amendment of existing agreement with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive
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The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby directs thatfor any percentage mentioned in an existing agreement in respect of a hereditament owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive there shall be substituted 10 per cent.
Signed
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 28th February 2011
Brian McClure — A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Under Article 21(1) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 the owner of any hereditament the rent of which becomes payable or is collected at intervals shorter than quarterly may by agreement in writing with the Department of Finance and Personnel (“the Department”) undertake to pay the rates chargeable in respect of the hereditament whether it is occupied or not. The Department may agree, where the owner so undertakes and pays over to the Department on or before the date or dates specified in the agreement the amounts payable by him thereunder, to make an allowance not exceeding 15 per cent. This Order reduces from 15 per cent. to 10 per cent. the amount of the allowance under any existing Article 21(1) agreement in respect of a hereditament owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); Article 22(4C) was inserted by section 12 of the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (2009 c.8 (N.I.))
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