# The British Gas plc (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1997

S.I. 1997/961 · made 17 March 1997

Gas hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by British Gas plc (“British Gas”) are required to be shown in the central rating lists compiled on 1st April 1995 by virtue of the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3121). The rateable value of those hereditaments is determined in accordance with the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994. Different rateable values apply for hereditaments in England and for hereditaments in Wales, and the amount is adjusted from year to year by reference to changes in the length of certain pipe-lines.

Made under: Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Section 140, Section 143, Schedule 6 paragraph 3)

## Introductory text

RATING AND VALUATION
Made 17th March 1997
Coming into force 1st April 1997
The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 140 and 143(1) of and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

## 2 Amendment of standard formula

In article 2 (interpretation) of the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994, in the definition of “the standard formula”, for paragraph (a) there is substituted—
“(a) T in respect of English gas hereditaments is £385,689,700 and in respect of Welsh gas hereditaments is £26,472,700;”.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
17th March 1997
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
17th March 1997

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
Gas hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by British Gas plc (“British Gas”) are required to be shown in the central rating lists compiled on 1st April 1995 by virtue of the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3121). The rateable value of those hereditaments is determined in accordance with the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994. Different rateable values apply for hereditaments in England and for hereditaments in Wales, and the amount is adjusted from year to year by reference to changes in the length of certain pipe-lines.
By virtue of this Order, with effect from 1st April 1997 the amount of rateable value of gas hereditaments occupied or owned by British Gas by reference to which the adjustment formula is applied is reduced, the formula for adjustment remaining otherwise unchanged.

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