The Central Rating Lists (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/737 · Made 6 March 2001

RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND

Made 6th March 2001

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2001

Coming into force 1st April 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 53(1), (2), and (4), 64(3) and 65(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988^f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

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Footnotes

f1: 1988 c. 41; section 53 is amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42). See section 146(6) of the 1988 Act for the definition of “prescribed”. 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.

1Citation, extent and commencement
2Amendment to the 2000 Regulations
Signature
Explanatory note

1Citation, extent and commencement

These Regulations, which extend to England only, may be cited as the Central Rating Lists (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2Amendment to the 2000 Regulations

(1)

The Central Rating Lists (England) Regulations 2000^f1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (3) of regulation 1,

(a)

At the beginning insert the following—

“(a)

Subject to subparagraph (b)”; and

(b)

At the end of paragraph (3) add the following—

“(b)

In Part 8 of the Schedule, references to a designated person by name are references to the company bearing that name on 28th February 2001.”

(3)

After Part IV insert the following—

“PART IVA

INDEPENDENT GAS TRANSPORTERS

Independent Gas Transporters

10A

(1)

Where a company which is a designated person by virtue of being listed in Part 8 of the Schedule occupies or, in the case of unoccupied hereditaments, owns what would, apart from these Regulations, be more than one hereditament (each of which is called in this regulation “the separate premises”) and each of those separate premises satisfies the conditions set out in paragraph (2), those separate premises shall be treated as one hereditament.

(2)

The conditions are that each of the separate premises is used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the designated person acting as a public gas transporter and are not excepted premises.

(3)

In paragraph (2)—

(a)

“excepted premises” means premises used wholly or mainly as office premises, where those premises are not situated on operational land of the designated person; and

(b)

“public gas transporter” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986^f2.

(4)

The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as occupied by the designated person.”.

(4)

In the Schedule—

(a)

in Part 7, and with effect beginning with 1st January 2001, for “Imperial Chemical Industries plc” substitute “Ineos Chlor Limited”;

(b)

after Part 7 insert the following—

“PART 8

INDEPENDENT GAS TRANSPORTERS

Designated person Relevant hereditaments

British Gas Connections Limited Hereditaments described in regulation 10A

TotalFinaElf Pipelines Limited

The Gas Transportation Company Limited

SSE Pipelines Limited

ScottishPower Gas Limited

East Midlands Pipelines Limited

GTC Pipelines Limited

Energi Link Limited

Hyder Gas Networks Limited

E.S. Pipelines Limited

”

Designated person	Relevant hereditaments
British Gas Connections Limited	Hereditaments described in regulation 10A
TotalFinaElf Pipelines Limited The Gas Transportation Company Limited SSE Pipelines Limited ScottishPower Gas Limited East Midlands Pipelines Limited GTC Pipelines Limited Energi Link Limited Hyder Gas Networks Limited E.S. Pipelines Limited

Signature

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

6th March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

With a view to securing the central rating en bloc of certain hereditaments, regulations may be made under section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which designate a person and prescribe in relation to that person one or more descriptions of non-domestic hereditament.

The principal Regulations made under this power are the Central Rating Lists (England) Regulations 2000 S.I. 2000/525 which have effect in relation to the central rating list for England compiled on 1 April 2000. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations:

(a)

by designating a group of gas transporting companies and securing that the prescribed premises each of them uses for the purposes of acting as a public gas transporter are rated as a single hereditament; and

(b)

by substituting Ineos Chlor Limited for Imperial Chemical Industries plc.