RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977

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RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 56



56.(1) Every owner who is rated under Article 20 instead of the occupier, or
who enters into an agreement with the Department under Article 21, in respect
of any hereditaments shall, without prejudice to the rights of the occupier of
any of those hereditaments, be treated for the purposes of the provisions of
this Part relating to revisions, reviews and appeals as standing in the same
position as the occupier.

(2) Where any premises are unoccupied, any reference in this Part to the
occupier shall be construed as a reference to the owner of the premises,
except that, where the owner is unknown and by virtue of section 24(2)(e) of
the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 a notice addressed to the
occupier has been served in accordance with that section, that notice shall be
deemed to have been duly served on that owner.

(3) Any officer of a district council who is specifically or generally
authorised in that behalf by the council may authorise the institution,
carrying on or defence of any proceedings, or the taking of any step, in
relation to a valuation list which the council is authorised or required to
institute, carry on, defend or take.

(4) Where, under any provision of this Part, any thing is authorised or
required to be done by or in relation to any person other than the Department,
the Commissioner or a district council, that thing may be done by or to any
duly authorised agent of that person.

(5) Any notice (including an application for a revision) required or
authorised by this Part to be served on the Commissioner or the district
valuer need not name the Commissioner or the district valuer but may describe
him as the Commissioner or, as the case may require, as the district valuer
for the valuation district in question, without further description.

(6) Where, under any provision of this Part, the district valuer is required
or authorised to cause any matter to be entered, or any alteration to be made,
in the valuation list or in a new valuation list which has not yet come into
force, the district valuer shall notify the Commissioner of that matter or
alteration and the Commissioner shall prepare or alter the list accordingly.

(7) Where an alteration in the valuation list is necessary to give effect to a
decision of the Lands Tribunal on an appeal made or transferred to the
Tribunal under this Part, the Commissioner shall

(a)whether upon the direction of the Tribunal or otherwise, make that
alteration; and

(b)serve a certificate of the alteration on the persons mentioned in paragraph
(8).

(8) The certificates of alterations in the valuation list mentioned in
Articles 49(2), 50(2), 52(5), and 55(3) and in paragraph (7) shall be served
on

(a)the Department;

(b)the district council;

(c)the person (if any) in consequence of whose application or appeal the
alteration is made, where not the Department or the district council;

(d)except where the alteration is made under Article 50(1)(a)(ii), (iii), (iv)
or (v) or (b), the occupier of the hereditament, where not the person
mentioned in sub-paragraph (c); and

(e)where the alteration is made in consequence of an appeal, every other
person on whom a copy of the notice of appeal was served who submitted
comments or furnished evidence in connection with the appeal.

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RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 56