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Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 17 Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Citation2014 NI c 6
Year2014
  • The Development Loans (Agriculture and Fisheries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 is repealed.
    • (a) after section 4 insert—
      (4A) Grants payable to certain harbour authorities in relation to expenses
    • “(1) Subject to subsection (2) , the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, may give to a harbour authority in relation to which the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development exercises functions for the purposes of this Act financial assistance by way of grant in respect of any expenses chargeable against income, being expenses which are incurred by the authority during a period in respect of which, in the opinion of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the authority was not in receipt of sufficient revenue to meet its expenses.
    • (2) A grant under this section may be made on such terms and conditions (including conditions for repayment in specified circumstances and conditions by virtue of which the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development may participate in the profits or income of the authority) as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development may think fit to impose.
    ;    Subject to subsection (2) , the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, may give to a harbour authority in relation to which the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development exercises functions for the purposes of this Act financial assistance by way of grant in respect of any expenses chargeable against income, being expenses which are incurred by the authority during a period in respect of which, in the opinion of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the authority was not in receipt of sufficient revenue to meet its expenses.A grant under this section may be made on such terms and conditions (including conditions for repayment in specified circumstances and conditions by virtue of which the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development may participate in the profits or income of the authority) as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development may think fit to impose.(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 ”.in sub-paragraph (a) , after “hereditament” insert “ (where the hereditament does not have a net annual value and a capital value) ”;in sub-paragraph (b) , for “£55,000” substitute “ £150,000 ”;in sub-paragraph (c) , for head (ii) substitute—
    • (ii) its net annual value does not exceed £1,590;
    ;     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.
  • 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.
    • (1) Article 26 of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (power of Department to require information as to ownership, etc.) is amended as follows.at the end of sub-paragraph (a) insert “ and the date on which he acquired that interest ”;after sub-paragraph (c) insert—
    • (cc) the date on which he began to occupy the hereditament;
    .    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.
    the date on which he acquired ownership of the hereditament; andthe date, if any, on which he began to occupy the hereditament.(4) In paragraph (2B) (a) after “(1) ” insert “ , (1A) ”.(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 are chargeable under Article 25A where the hereditament is a hereditament which—
    • (a) is not in use; and
    • (b) is a hereditament which the Department considers will, when next in use, be a dwelling-house or, though not a dwelling-house, will be used partly for the purposes of a private dwelling; and
    • (c) is not the subject of an agreement under Article 21.
    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.is not in use; andis a hereditament which the Department considers will, when next in use, be a dwelling-house or, though not a dwelling-house, will be used partly for the purposes of a private dwelling; andis not the subject of an agreement under Article 21.The allowance shall be by way of a discount of 4% on the amount payable on account of the rate as is computed by reference to the rateable capital value of the hereditament.(3) In paragraph (2A) after

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