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UK Law Reference
All sections of Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019
2019 c. 13, s.5

Section 5 — Duty to report on operation of buy-out arrangements

This version in force from 2019-05-26

Snapshot: 2026-08-24

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(1) The Department must, after the end of each financial year for which buy-out arrangements are published by it, prepare a report on the operation of the arrangements in that year.

(2) A report under this section in respect of a financial year must, in particular, set out—

(a) the number of participants who have received a buy-out payment in that year, and

(b) the total amount of the buy-out payments made by the Department in that year.

(3) In the period while there is no Executive—

(a) the Department must send a report under this section to the Secretary of State, and

(b) the Secretary of State must lay the report before Parliament.

(4) At any other time, the Department must lay a report under this section before the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(5) In this section “the Department”, “buy-out arrangements”, “buy-out payment” and “the period while there is no Executive” have the same meaning as in regulation 23B of the 2012 Regulations (inserted by section 4).