{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-rating-list-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-rating-list-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/422",
  "legislation_title": "The Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-rating-list-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Railway hereditaments",
  "text": "(1) Where Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which is a designated person by virtue of being listed in Part 1 of the Schedule—\n(a) occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns any hereditament; or\n(b) lets or licenses a hereditament to—\n(i) a licence holder or a licence exempt holder and the lessee, licensee or the British Transport Police Authority occupies, or, if unoccupied, owns the hereditament; or\n(ii) the British Transport Police Authority and it occupies, or, if unoccupied, owns the hereditament,\nand if, apart from these Regulations, those hereditaments would be more than one hereditament and provided each separate hereditament satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) those separate hereditaments will be treated as one hereditament.\n(2) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) are that the hereditament is —\n(a) used wholly or mainly for railway purposes; and\n(b) not comprised in an excepted hereditament.\n(3) In this regulation—\n...\n“excepted hereditament” means a hereditament consisting of or comprising—\n(a)premises used as a shop, hotel, museum or place of public refreshment;\n(b)premises used wholly or mainly as office premises, where those premises are not situated on the operational land of—\n(i)any person designated by regulation 4 and named in Part 1 of the Schedule;\n(ii)a licence exempt operator or licence holder;\n(c)premises or rights so let out as to be capable of separate assessment, other than those falling within paragraph (1)(b); or\n(d)premises (other than premises used in connection with the collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed or to be conveyed by rail) used wholly or in part for purposes concerned with—\n(i)the carriage of goods or passengers by road transport or sea transport; or\n(ii)harbours,\nor for purposes incidental to such purposes;\n“licence exempt operator” and “licence holder” have the meanings given by sections 10(6) and 83(1) respectively of the Railways Act 1993 except that licence holder also includes a holder of a railway undertaking licence granted pursuant to the Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2005; and\n“railway purposes” means the purposes of providing railway services, within the meaning given by section 82(1) of the Railways Act 1993, or for purposes ancillary to those purposes (including the purposes of providing policing services or the exhibiting advertisements).\n(4) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) will be treated as occupied by the designated person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Retained EU Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1281), regs. 1(2), 6; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Local Government Finance (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/436), regs. 1, 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 31.3.2005, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2024/757",
      "affecting_title": "The Central Rating List (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/422/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:00.086467+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."
}