Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014
| Year | 2014 |
Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014
2014 CHAPTER 6
An Act to repeal the Development Loans (Agriculture and Fisheries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968; to enable the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to pay grants to certain harbour authorities; to amend the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977; to make provision in relation to the payment of interest on funds in court; to make provision enabling the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to recover certain costs; to make provision for the disclosure of data obtained by the Comptroller and Auditor General for data matching purposes; to enable the Department of Justice to make payments to certain bodies providing services for the police, etc.; and for purposes connected with those matters.
[28th April 2014]
BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:
1 Repeal of the Development Loans \\(Agriculture and Fisheries) Act \\(Northern Ireland) 1968
The Development Loans (Agriculture and Fisheries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 is repealed.
2 Grants payable to certain harbour authorities in relation to expenses
In the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970-
4A. Grants payable to certain harbour authorities in relation to expenses
(b) in section 33 (miscellaneous financial provisions) after "section 3" insert "and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to make grants under section 4A".
3 Rating of owners instead of occupiers in certain cases
In Article 20 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (rating of owners instead of occupiers in certain cases)-
(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after "hereditament" insert "(where the hereditament does not have a net annual value and a capital value)";
(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for "£55,000" substitute "£150,000";
(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for head (ii) substitute-
"(ii) its net annual value does not exceed £1,590;";
(b) in paragraph (1A), for the words from "both conditions" to the end of that paragraph substitute "the conditions in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c)(ii) of paragraph (1) must be satisfied, but the condition set out in sub-paragraph (c)(i) of that paragraph does not apply in relation to such a hereditament.
4 Repeal of Articles 23 and 24 of the Rates \\(Northern Ireland) Order 1977
Articles 23 (liability of occupier for rates unpaid by owner) and 24 (recovery of rates from tenants and lodgers) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 are repealed.
5 Power of Department of Finance and Personnel to require information
(1) Article 26 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (power of Department to require information as to ownership, etc.) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)-
(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (a) insert "and the date on which he acquired that interest";
(b) after sub-paragraph (c) insert-
"(cc) the date on which he began to occupy the hereditament;".
(3) After paragraph (1) insert-
"(1A) The Department may, for the purposes of this Order, serve a notice on the owner of any hereditament requiring him to state to the Department in writing, within a period and in the manner specified in the notice-
(a) the date on which he acquired ownership of the hereditament; and
(b) the date, if any, on which he began to occupy the hereditament.".
(4) In paragraph (2B)(a) after "(1)" insert ", (1A)".
6 Discount on rates on dwellings
(1) Article 30 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (discount on rates on dwellings) is amended as follows.
(2) After paragraph (2) insert-
"(2ZA) An allowance shall be granted in accordance with paragraph (2ZC) to any person entitled to possession of a hereditament to which paragraph (2ZB) applies who pays the net amount due on account of a rate in respect of that hereditament in a single sum before such date as the Department may notify to him.
(2ZB) This paragraph applies to a hereditament in the capital value list in respect of which rates...
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