Paragraph 11

(1)

The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect, in the case of a Gas Board, where gas is manufactured by the Board, or in the Board's area by the Gas Council, in a gasworks which is situated partly in one rating area and partly in one or more other rating areas.

(2)

For the purposes of section 33 of this Act, the Gas Board or Gas Council shall be treated as manufacturing gas in each of the rating areas in which a part of the gasworks is situated, notwithstanding that no gas is actually manufactured in one or more of those areas.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph 5 of this Schedule, the gas manufactured in the gasworks in any year shall be treated as apportioned between all the rating areas in which parts of the gasworks are situated, in such proportions as may be agreed between the rating authorities of those areas and the Gas Board:

Provided that if any apportionment required by this sub-paragraph for the purpose of apportioning the Board's adjusted total of rateable values for any year has not been agreed between the rating authorities and the Board before the end of the month of September preceding the beginning of that year, the apportionment required by this sub-paragraph shall be made by the Minister and notified by him to the rating authorities and to the Board as soon as may be after the end of that month.

(4)

In this paragraph—

(a)

the expression " gasworks " means any group of premises within one curtilage which is occupied by a Gas Board or the Gas Council for the purposes of the manufacture of gas ; and a group of premises shall not be treated as being otherwise than within one curtilage by reason only that it is traversed by a public highway ;

(b)

any reference to the manufacture of gas shall be construed as including a reference to the production of gas by such an application of such a process as is mentioned in section 33(3)(b) of this Act.