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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
Northern Ireland Orders in Council
25th November 1986
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on the expiration of one month from the day on which it is made.
2. The M1 Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
M11954 c. 33 (N.I.)
3. For Article 62 of the M1 Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (service of demand note, etc., by post) there shall be substituted the following Article—
62.—(1) The following documents, that is to say,—
(a)a demand note under Article 9(4); and
(b)a certificate under Article 49(2) of an alteration made by the district valuer in the valuation list or a notice under Article 49(3) of a decision by the district valuer that no alteration should be made in the valuation list,
may be served on, respectively, the person charged with a rate and the persons mentioned in Article 56(8) or the person who applied for revision of the list by being sent to him or them by ordinary post.
(2) A process under Part VI of the M2 Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 for the recovery of any sum due to the Department of the Environment on account of a rate may be served—
(a)by being sent by that Department by ordinary post; or
(b)by any mode of service permitted by magistrates' courts rules.
(3) In section 24(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (service of documents), as it applies to the service by post of such a note, certificate, notice or process, the word “registering” shall be omitted.”
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Art. 4-Consequential repeal
The Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986