{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-values-wales-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-values-wales-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2000/299",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Undertakers (Rateable Values) (Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-values-wales-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“Central List Regulations” (“Rheoliadau Rhestr Ganolog”) means the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999;\n“a class of hereditaments” (“dosbarth ar hereditamentau”) means such of those hereditaments to be shown in the central rating list for Wales by virtue of regulation 3(1) of and Part 6 of the Schedule to the Central List Regulations as are occupied by any one designated person named in the schedule to this Order;\n“designated person” (“person dynodedig”) means a person designated by regulation 3(1) of and named in Part 6 of the Schedule to the Central List Regulations; and in relation to a class of hereditaments “relevant designated person” means the designated person in occupation of that class;\n“recalculation factor” (“ffactor ailgyfrif”) in relation to a class of hereditaments means the factor determined in relation to that class in accordance with article 7;\n“relevant year”(“blwyddyn berthnasol”) means any year for which a rateable value is to be determined in accordance with this Order and “relevant preceding year” means the year preceding a relevant year;\n“the standard formula” (“y fformwla safonol”) means the formula T + U where—\n(a) T is the amount specified in relation to a class of hereditaments in the Schedule; and\n(b) U is the recalculation factor applicable to that class in respect of the relevant year ; and\n“year” (“blwyddyn”) means a chargeable financial year.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a class of hereditaments occupied by a person includes a reference, in the case of unoccupied hereditaments, to hereditaments owned by that person, references to occupation being construed accordingly.\n(3) Any reference in this Order or in the Schedule to a designated person by name is to the company bearing that name at the date that name is entered in the central rating list for Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.4.2000, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/ 3453."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/944",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Utilities) (Rateable Value) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2000/299/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:19:34.975751+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."
}