Legalize / United Kingdom / Northern Ireland / Ni-Statutory-Rule

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2025-03-07

Last updated 2025-04-01

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

Department Government Printer for Northern Ireland

Source legislation.gov.uk

PDF Download

articles Not indexed

Reform history JSON API

Made: 7th March 2025

Coming into operation: 1st April 2025

The Department of Finance makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 37(4), of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2025.

Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

2

For Part 1 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010[^f00002] there shall be substituted the Part 1 set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

PART 1 — Telecommunications hereditaments

Company name
Atlas Communications NI Limited
B4B Telecoms Ltd.
Cable & Wireless UK Ltd.
Eircom UK Ltd.
Fibrus Ltd.
Hibernia Atlantic (UK) Limited
Mercury Communications Limited
Netomnia Limited
Nexfibre Networks Limited
The Internet Business Ltd, trading as ‘Tibus’
Virgin Media Limited
Vodafone Limited

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 7th March 2025

Andrew McAvoy — A senior officer of the Department of Finance

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.

These Regulations substitute the list in Part 1 of the Schedule to the 2010 Regulations to take account of new entrants to the telecommunications market in Northern Ireland.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); paragraph (4) of Article 37 was substituted by Article 6(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)).

[^f00002]: S.R. 2010 No.431 as amended by S.R. 2014 No.67, S.R. 2015 No. 147, S.R. 2018 No.67, S.R. 2019 No 198 and S.R. 2020 No 161.

Editorial notes

[^key-40b4c89869b70aba1f85990abe874ea8]: Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1

[^key-4d3336d9995e4a0cd30b9193ead40f72]: Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1

[^key-aedb21be582e5645bfcc7ba751fc9684]: Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.