
2015 No. 48
Rates
The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015
Made 10th February 2015
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on 2nd March 2015
Coming into operation 1st April 2015
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 .
Citation and commencement
1 
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.)—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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);”.
Revocation
3 
The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) Order 2013  is revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 10th February 2015
Brian McClure

A senior officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
