District Rate

The primary legislation applicable to Councils in Northern Ireland is the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. This legislation requires each Council to consider and approve its financial budgets ("the estimates") for the forthcoming financial year and to confirm the finances to be raised from the District Rate in the forthcoming year by a "prescribed date". The Department of the Environment sets the "prescribed date" annually, normally circa mid February.

The Council has the third lowest district domestic rate at 0.2214 of the twenty-six District Councils in Northern Ireland.

In the year ended 31^st March 2006 the Council received £4,848,188 of rates income.