Irish Household Tax Act: very confusing, not clear at all.

 What Civil Servant drafts this rubbish legislation:  the Household Tax Act says:-

A residential property shall not, for the purposes of this Act, be regarded as a relevant residential property where the property—(a) has been completed but not sold by the person who has

constructed the property, or who has had the property constructed,

So this means that if your house is a self -build you don't have to pay the Irish Household Tax.

It must be read as that: otherwise the act would say-

A residential property shall not, for the purposes of this Act, be regarded as a relevant residential property where the property— has been completed but not sold by the person who has constructed the property, or who has had the property constructed, and that property is not occupied as a dwelling.

It's very unclear as the Act has been published and I'm sure very much open to interpretation, but what annoys me is why are the so called journalists not commenting on any of this.

I'm coming to a realisation that no one in Ireland can speak or understand, or write the Queen's English any more.

It's also no wonder that solicitors, barristers, and other law professionals make fortunes arguing about words like this that can be construed to have different meanings than they appear to have at first glance.