{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-gas-plc-rateable-values-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-gas-plc-rateable-values-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2471",
  "legislation_title": "The British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-gas-plc-rateable-values-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“British Gas” means the company registered at the date of this Order by the name of British Gas plc;\n“gas hereditaments” means non-domestic hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by British Gas and required by virtue of Part 3 of the Schedule to the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1989 to be shown in a central non-domestic rating list; and “English gas hereditaments” means such hereditaments so required to be shown in the central rating list for England, and “Welsh gas hereditaments” means such hereditaments so required to be shown in the central rating list for Wales;\n“relevant pipe-line” means any pipe-line occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by British Gas and having a design operating pressure exceeding 7 bars;\n“relevant year” means a year for which a rateable value falls to be determined in accordance with this Order, and “relevant preceding year” means the year preceding a relevant year;\n“the standard formula” means the formula\nT+U, where—\nT in relation to English gas hereditaments is £504,300,000 and in relation to Welsh gas hereditaments is £31,700,000, and\nU is the recalculation factor determined under Part IV in respect of each class of hereditaments respectively for the relevant year;\n“year” means a chargeable financial year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2263."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2471/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:12.052555+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}