{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-valuesengland-order-2000/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-valuesengland-order-2000/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/950",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Undertakers (Rateable Values)(England) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-undertakers-rateable-valuesengland-order-2000",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Recalculation factor: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In article 6, in relation to each class of hereditaments—\n(a) in any formula—\ny is the relevant amount of water in relation to the period of 3 years ending immediately before the relevant preceding year;\nY, subject to article 6(3), is the relevant amount of water in relation to the period of 3 years ending on 31st March 1999;\nZ is a number having the same value as y in the last foregoing year in relation to which the applicable recalculation factor for that class was determined in accordance with article 6(2); and\nT has the same meaning as in the definition of “the standard formula” in article 2; and\n(b) “relevant amount of water” in relation to a relevant designated person and any period of 3 years means the annual average, over 3 years, expressed in megalitres to the nearest tenth part, calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) The formula referred to in paragraph (1)(b) is\nA-B where—\nA is the estimated annual average amount of water put into supply by that person in the period of 3 years, being water supplied—\n(a) to any other person in bulk, that is to say for the purposes of augmenting or constituting the supply to be given by that person; or\n(b) otherwise,\nless half the estimated annual average amount of non-potable water so supplied otherwise than in bulk; and\nB is half the annual average amount of water estimated to have been taken or supplied in bulk during that period of 3 years.\n(3) Where the relevant designated person did not supply water throughout any year in a period of 3 years, paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply as if for the reference to the annual average over 3 years there were substituted a reference to the annual average over the number of years throughout which water was supplied; and for the purposes of this paragraph any temporary suspension of supply shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/950/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:10.540578+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."
}