2021 No. 134

Rates

The Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Finance1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 23A of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 19772.

Citation and commencementI11

These Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 30th June 2021.

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Commencement Information
I1

Reg. 1 in operation at 30.6.2021, see reg. 1

Amendment of the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007I22

For Schedule 1 to the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20073 there shall be substituted the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I2

Reg. 2 in operation at 30.6.2021, see reg. 1

RevocationI33

The Rates (Social Sector Value) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20154 are revoked.

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Commencement Information
I3

Reg. 3 in operation at 30.6.2021, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 25th May 2021.

seal_r00001Alan BrontëA senior officer of the Department of Finance

I4SCHEDULESchedule substituted for Schedule 1 to the Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Regulation 2

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Commencement Information
I4

Sch. in operation at 30.6.2021, see reg. 1

SCHEDULE 1Prescribed Registered Housing Associations

Regulation 4

  • Abbeyfield and Wesley Housing Association Ltd

  • Alpha Housing (Northern Ireland) Ltd

  • Apex Housing Association Ltd

  • Ark Housing Association Northern Ireland Ltd

  • Choice Housing Ireland Ltd

  • Clanmil Housing Association Ltd

  • Connswater Homes Ltd

  • Covenanter Residential Association Ltd

  • Craigowen Housing Association Ltd

  • Grove Community Housing Association

  • Habinteg Housing Association (Ulster) Ltd

  • Newington Housing Association Ltd

  • North Belfast Housing Association Ltd

  • Radius Housing Association

  • Rural Housing Association Ltd

  • South Ulster Housing Association Ltd

  • St. Matthews Housing Association Ltd

  • Triangle Housing Association Ltd

  • Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association Ltd

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Rates (Social Sector Value) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) provide, subject to exceptions, for a person to be chargeable to rates in respect of a domestic property owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive or a housing association listed in Schedule 1 to the Regulations, on the basis of social sector value rather than on the basis of the property’s rateable capital value. In determining a social sector value, the Department of Finance is under a duty, by virtue of Article 23A(2) of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, to ensure that the amount of rates chargeable is such proportion of any rent payable in respect of the property as the Department considers appropriate.

These Regulations substitute the list of housing associations in Schedule 1 to the 2007 Regulations in consequence of certain housing associations having amalgamated, ceased to exist or changed their name.