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PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 2

1954 c.33

2.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any transferred provision, deed,
lease or other instrument or document whatsoever, the Ministry of Development
[, or, in relation to the debts and charges mentioned in paragraph (c), the
Department of Commerce,] with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may, by
order made subject to negative resolution, require the payment of interest or
costs of collection, or both, on any sums recoverable under this Act in
respect of

(a)any outstanding local or public rates (including water rates [, regional
rate and district rate]);

(b)any outstanding rent due in respect of housing accommodation;

[(c)any outstanding debt for electricity supplied by the Northern Ireland
Electricity Service or gas supplied by a district council or any charge in
respect of the provision of a meter or other device installed to measure or
regulate such supply of electricity or gas;]

(i)the basis on which such interest or costs of collection shall be
calculated;

(ii)the period in respect of which such interest shall be payable;

(iii)the rate per cent. per annum of such interest;

(iv)determining the date as from which any rates, [rent, charge or other debt]
shall be treated as outstanding for the purposes of this section.

(2) Any interest or costs of collection payable by virtue of subsection (1)
may be recovered in like manner as rates are, or, as the case may be, rent [or
any charge or other debt] is, recoverable under this Act.

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