Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 397: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the way the owner of an uninhabited property may receive an exemption certificate in respect of the household charge. [30649/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Household Charge) Regulations 2012 provide the legislative basis for the household charge.

The Act provides at section 9(1) for application to be made to the relevant local authority for a certificate of exemption from the charge in respect of a property to which the exemptions contained in subsections 4(1), 4(2) and 4(3) apply. These are: Residential property owned by certain charities or discretionary trusts,

Residential property which an owner has vacated due to long-term mental or physical infirmity; and

Residential property the sole owner of which has died and where the personal representative of that person is not liable under the Act for the charge.