The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
Source: legislation.gov.uk (2025-04-14)

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2025 No. 44

Rates

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Made

7th March 2025

Coming into operation

1st April 2025

The Department of Finance makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 37(4), of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(1 (\"#f00001\")).

Citation and commencementN.I.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2025.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/44/regulation/1\")

Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010N.I.

2. For Part 1 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(2 (\"#f00002\")) there shall be substituted the Part 1 set out in the Schedule.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/44/regulation/1\")

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 7th March 2025

(L.S.)

Andrew McAvoy

A senior officer of the Department of Finance

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEN.I.

Commencement Information

I3Sch. (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/44/schedule\") in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/44/regulation/1\")

Regulation 3

PART 1N.I.Telecommunications hereditaments

Commencement Information

I4Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/44/regulation/1\")

Company nameAtlas Communications NI LimitedB4B Telecoms Ltd.Cable & Wireless UK Ltd.Eircom UK Ltd.Fibrus Ltd.Hibernia Atlantic (UK) LimitedMercury Communications LimitedNetomnia LimitedNexfibre Networks LimitedThe Internet Business Ltd, trading as ‘Tibus’Virgin Media LimitedVodafone Limited

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.

These Regulations substitute the list in Part 1 of the Schedule to the 2010 Regulations to take account of new entrants to the telecommunications market in Northern Ireland.

(1)

S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1977/2157\"); paragraph (4) of Article 37 was substituted by Article 6(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1996/3162\").

(2)

S.R. 2010 No.431 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2010/431\") as amended by S.R. 2014 No.67 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/67\"), S.R. 2015 No. 147 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/147\"), S.R. 2018 No.67 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2018/67\"), S.R. 2019 No 198 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2019/198\") and S.R. 2020 No 161 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2020/161\").