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The Central Rating List (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006

S.I. 2006/495 · Made 27 February 2006

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RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND

Made 27th February 2006

Laid before Parliament 6th March 2006

Coming into force 1st April 2006

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 53(1), (2), (4), (4A) and (5), 64(3), 65(4) and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 41. These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. In section 53, subsections (1) and (2) were amended, subsection (4) was substituted, and subsection (4A) was inserted by section 139 of, and paragraph 29(2), (3) and (4) of Schedule 5 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Central Rating List (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

2Amendment of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005f1 are amended in regulation 8(3) by substituting “2008” for “2006”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Phil Woolas

Minister of State

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

27th February 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 8 of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”).

Under sections 53, 64(3) and 65(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, the 2005 Regulations prescribe the hereditaments which are to be listed on central rating lists compiled on or after 1st April 2005 and designate the persons who will be considered to be in occupation of those hereditaments for the purposes of rating.

Regulation 8 of the 2005 Regulations is concerned with telecommunications hereditaments. It specifies that British Telecommunications plc (“BT”) shall be treated as in occupation of a single hereditament comprising property which it occupies or owns, such as telephone kiosks and masts, and all unbundled local loops. An unbundled local loop exists where the copper wire connection between the local telephone exchange and the customer’s premises is disconnected from BT’s network and connected to an alternative service provider’s network. Regulation 8(3) provides that unbundled local loops will cease to form part of this single hereditament on 1st April 2006 and so BT would cease to be treated as in occupation of them on that date.

These Regulations amend regulation 8(3) of the 2005 Regulations so that BT will continue to be treated as being in occupation of unbundled local loops until 1st April 2008.