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1991 No. 959

RATING AND VALUATION

The Electricity Industry (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1991

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

28th March 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England andthe Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, in exercise of thepowers conferred on them by sections 140(4), 143(1) and 146(6) of andparagraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Finance Act1988(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf,hereby make the following Order in terms of a draft laid before, andapproved by resolution of, each House of Parliament:

Commencement and citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Electricity Industry (RateableValues) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April1991.

Combined heat and power schemes and refuse-burninggenerators

2. Article 3(2) of the Electricity Generators (Rateable Values) Order1989(2) shall be amended-

(a)by the substitution, in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), of the words from thebeginning to"available", of the words"its primary function is"; and

(b)by the insertion, in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), after the word"refuse,", of the words"and neither paragraph (i) nor paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (a)applies,".

Annual recalculation of rateable values

3. Article 13 of the Electricity Supply Industry (Rateable Values)Order 1989(3) shall be amended-

(a)in paragraph (1), by the insertion, after the word"capacity" in the definitions of"D" and"d" respectively, of the words"in England or, as the case may be, in Wales"; and

(b)in paragraph (2), by the substitution for the definition of"total net capacity", of the following:

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

Blatch

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

28th March 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

28th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order amends the Electricity Generators (RateableValues) Order 1989 to secure that the rateable values of hereditamentsare to be determined in accordance with the Order-

(a)in the case of a hereditament comprising an electricity generatorused in connection with a combined heat and power scheme, only if suchuse is the primary function of the hereditament; and

(b)in the case of a generator which has the burning of refuse as itsprimary source of energy, only if it is not primarily used for thepurposes of generating electricity or a combined heat and power scheme,and has a capacity of 25 megawatts or more.

Article 3 amends the Electricity Supply Industry (Rateable Values)Order 1989 to secure that the factor used for the annual recalculationof the rateable values of electricity hereditaments occupied or (ifunoccupied) owned by certain power generation companies is calculatedseparately in relation to England and to Wales.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 is amended byparagraph 38(12) to (14) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government andHousing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

S.I. 1989/2474. Article 3(2) is substituted by S.I.1990/804.

(3)

S.I. 1989/2475, amended by S.I. 1990/804, article 3.


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