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RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 51



51.(1) [Any person, other than the Department, who is aggrieved by an
alteration which the district valuer has caused to be made in the valuation
list, or any person who has served on the district valuer an application for
revision of the valuation list and who is aggrieved by a decision of the
district valuer not to cause the valuation list to be altered in consequence
of the application] may, within twenty-eight days from the date of service on
him of the certificate of the alteration, or, as the case may be, of the
notice of the decision, appeal to the Commissioner against the alteration or
decision.

(2) Any person, other than the Department, who is aggrieved by an alteration
made in the valuation list by the Commissioner under Article 50(1)(a)(i) or
(b) may, within twenty-eight days from the date of service on him of the
certificate of the alteration, apply to the Commissioner for a review of the
alteration; and in the succeeding provisions of this Order any reference to an
appeal to the Commissioner includes a reference to an application to him for a
review under this paragraph or, as the case may require, to such a review, and
references to an appellant or to hearing or determining an appeal shall be
construed accordingly.

(3) An appeal to the Commissioner shall be instituted by a notice of appeal,
signed by the appellant, stating

(a)the alteration desired or objected to;

(b)the reasons for desiring or objecting to the alteration; and

(c)where the appellant is not the owner, or is not the occupier, of the
hereditament, the name and address of the owner, or, as the case may require,
of the occupier or of both.

(4) The appellant shall, within the period of twenty-eight days mentioned in
paragraph (1) or (2) (whichever is applicable), serve a copy of the notice of
appeal on

(a)the occupier of the hereditament to which the appeal relates, where not the
appellant; and

(b)the owner of the hereditament, where he is not the occupier or the
appellant.

(5) The appellant may, at any time before the Commissioner's decision on the
appeal has been issued, abandon the appeal by serving a notice in that behalf
on the Commissioner.



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