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Regulation 5 Hereditaments occupied for purposes of extensive undertakings

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(1)

This regulation applies where a divided hereditament consists of or includes any land to which paragraph (2) applies.

(2)

This paragraph applies to land which is occupied—

(a)

for the purposes of the Post Office; or

(b)

for the purposes of a statutory water undertaking; or

(c)

for the purposes of any of the following Boards, that is to say, the British Railways Board, the London Passenger Transport Board and the British Waterways Board; or

(d)

by the National Coal Board; or

(e)

by a Gas Board or the Gas Council or an Electricity Board.

(3)

In a case to which this regulation applies the prescribed panel shall be the panel for that one of the relevant panel areas which contains a greater portion of the drainage district in which the hereditament is comprised than the portion of that district comprised in any other relevant panel area.

(4)

In this regulation—

  • “Electricity Board” has the meaning assigned to it by section 34(5) of the Act of 1967;

  • “Gas Board” means an Area Board within the meaning of the Gas Act 1948; and

  • “statutory water undertaking” has the meaning assigned to it by section 31 of the Act of 1967.