Regulation 2 Amendment to the 2000 Regulations

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

In paragraph (3) of regulation 1,

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.”.

In the Schedule—