{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-rating-list-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-rating-list-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "National and regional gas hereditaments",
  "text": "(1) Where Transco, which is a designated person by virtue of being listed in Part 3 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns what would, apart from these Regulations, be more than one hereditament and each of those separate hereditaments satisfies the conditions set out in paragraph (4), those hereditaments will be treated as one hereditament.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a company which is a designated person by virtue of being listed in Part 3 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns what would, apart from these Regulations, be more than one hereditament and each of those separate hereditaments satisfies the conditions set out in paragraph (4), those hereditaments will be treated as one hereditament.\n(3) Paragraph (2) will not apply where the hereditament is occupied or if unoccupied, owned by Transco.\n(4) The conditions are that each of the separate hereditaments is—\n(a) used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the designated person acting as a gas transporter; and\n(b) not an excepted hereditament.\n(5) In this regulation and in Part 3—\n“excepted hereditament” means—\n(a)a hereditament to which regulation 11 applies; and\n(b)a hereditament consisting of or comprising premises used wholly or mainly—\n(i)as office premises, where those premises are not situated on operational land of the designated person;\n(ii)for the manufacture of plant or gas fittings;\n(iii)as storage facilities, being underground storage cavities, liquefied natural gas storage facilities and facilities used or available for use in connection with off-shore storage; or\n(iv)for more than one of the foregoing purposes; and\n“gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7 of the Gas Act 1986;\n“Transco” means Transco plc and each subsidiary of National Grid Transco plc existing on 1 March 2005; and\n“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985.\n(6) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) and (2) will be treated as occupied by the designated person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 31.3.2005, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 44. Relevant amendments made by section 76 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 6. Substituted, together with section 736A, for section 736 as originally enacted, by section 144(1) of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2024/757",
      "affecting_title": "The Central Rating List (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2024/757",
      "affecting_title": "The Central Rating List (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "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/9",
    "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."
}