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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-for-rating-plant-and-machinery-regulations-1989/schedule/part-2/chapter-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/441",
  "legislation_title": "The Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-for-rating-plant-and-machinery-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/part/2/chapter/3",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "CLASS 4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following items, except–\n(a) any such item which is not, and is not in the nature of, a building or structure;\n(b) any part of any such item which does not form an integral part of such item as a building or structure or as being in the nature of a building or structure;\n(c) any such item or part of such item which is moved or rotated by motive power as part of the process of manufacture;\n(d) so much of any refractory or other lining forming part of any plant or machinery as is customarily renewed by reason of normal use at intervals of less than fifty weeks;\n(e) any item in Table B the total cubic capacity of which (measured externally and excluding foundations, settings, supports and anything which is not an integral part of the item) does not exceed two hundred cubic metres, and which is readily capable of being moved from one site and re-erected in its original state on another without the substantial demolition of the item or of any surrounding structure.\nTABLE A\nAerial ropeways, supports for;\nBlast Furnaces;\nBridges;\nChimneys;\nCoking Ovens;\nCooling Ponds;\nElevators and Hoists;\nFan Drifts;\nFloating docks and pontoons, with any bridges or gangways not of a temporary nature used in connection therewith;\nFlues;\nFlumes and conduits;\nFoundations, settings, fixed gantries, supports, platforms and stagings for plant and machinery;\nHeadgear–\nMine, quarry and pit;\nWell.\nMasts (including guy ropes) and towers for–\nRadar;\nTelevision;\nWireless.\nPits, beds and bays–\nAcid neutralising;\nCasting;\nCooling;\nDrop;\nInspection or testing;\nLiming, soaking, tanning or other treatment;\nSettling.\nRacks;\nSlipways, uprights, cradles and grids for ship construction and repair;\nStages, staithes and platforms for loading, unloading and handling material;\nTelescopes, including radio telescopes;\nTipplers;\nTransversers and turntables;\nWalkways, stairways, handrails and catwalks;\nWeighbridges;\nWell casings and liners;\nWindmills.\nTABLE B\nAccelerators;\nAcid concentrators;\nBins, hoppers and funnels;\nBoilers;\nBunkers;\nBurners, Bessemer converters, forges, furnaces, kilns, ovens and stoves;\nChambers, vessels and containers for–\nAbsorption of gases or fumes;\nAerographing and spraying;\nBleaching;\nChemical reaction;\nConditioning or treatment;\nCooling;\nDiffusion of gases;\nDrying;\nDust or fume collecting;\nFibre Separation (wool carbonising);\nFuming;\nImpregnating;\nMixing;\nRefrigerating;\nRegenerating;\nSandblasting;\nShotblasting;\nSterilising;\nSulphuric Acid;\nTesting.\nCondensers and scrubbers–\nAcid;\nAlkali;\nGas;\nOil;\nTar.\nCoolers, chillers and quenchers;\nCupolas;\nEconomisers, heat exchangers, recuperators, regenerators and superheaters;\nEvaporators;\nFilters and separators;\nHydraulic accumulators;\nPrecipitators;\nProducers, generators, purifiers, cleansers and holders of gas;\nReactors;\nRefuse destructors and incinerators;\nRetorts;\nSilos;\nStills;\nTanks;\nTowers and columns for–\nAbsorption of gases or fumes;\nChemical reaction;\nCooling;\nOil refining and condensing;\nTreatment;\nWater.\nVats;\nWasheries and dry cleaners for coal;\nWind tunnels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/526",
      "affecting_title": "The Electricity Act 1989 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/441/schedule/part/2/chapter/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:33.192990+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."
}