Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019

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Number 24 of 2019

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RATES AND OTHER MATTERS ACT 2019

CONTENTS

1. Interpretation

2. Construction of references to annual rate on valuation

3. Annual rate on valuation

4. Rate to be levied on occupiers of relevant property

5. Rate Book

6. Power to limit annual rate on valuation

7. Discharge of rates by set-off

8. Collection, care and management of rates

9. Provision for abatement of rates in respect of vacant properties

10. Database of Relevant Properties

11. Duty to inform rating authority of transfer of relevant property

12. Interest on overdue rates

13. Payment of rates on sale of relevant property

14. Unpaid rates to be a charge on relevant property

15. Scheme for waiver of rates

16. Authorised officers

17. Powers of authorised officers

18. Regulations

19. Expenses

20. Amendment of Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1978

21. Amendment of Valuation Act 2001

22. Amendment of Act of 2014

23. Certain regional spatial and economic strategies

24. Amendment of section 11 of Act of 2000

25. Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 2004

26. Amendment of Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019

27. Repeals and revocations

28. Short title, commencement, collective citation and construction

SCHEDULE

Repeals and Revocations

PART 1

Acts of the Oireachtas

Acts Referred to

Cork City Management (Amendment) Act 1941 (No. 5)

Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)

Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930 (No. 27)

Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1978 (No. 35)

Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 37)

Local Government (Rates) Act 1970 (No. 2)

Local Government Act 1941 (No. 23)

Local Government Act 1946 (No. 24)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Local Government Acts 1925 to 2016

Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1)

Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (No. 16)

Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)

Poor Law Acts (Ireland) Amendment Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 30)

Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 56)

Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 92)

Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 104)

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (No. 28)

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 (No. 14)

Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27)

Statute of Limitations 1957 (No. 6)

Valuation (Amendment) Act 2015 (No. 10)

Valuation Act 2001 (No. 13)

Number 24 of 2019

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RATES AND OTHER MATTERS ACT 2019

An Act to revise the law relating to the collection of rates in relation to certain properties, to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a database of those properties in the State, to provide for the amendment and repeal of certain enactments; for purposes unconnected with the foregoing, to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and otherwise make provision in relation to certain regional spatial and economic strategies, and to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 ; and to provide for related matters.

[11th July, 2019]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: