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    (3) Any reference in these Regulations to a hereditament is to a relevant non-domestic hereditament.

    (4) Any reference in these Regulations to a designated person by name is a reference to the company or body registered by or bearing that name at the date that name is entered in the central rating list.

    (5) Any term used in the Schedule to these Regulations or any Part of the Schedule has the meaning ascribed in that Schedule or that Part.

Application of the Regulations
     2. These Regulations shall have effect with respect to any central rating list compiled on or after 1st April 2000.

Designation of persons and description of hereditaments
     3.  - (1) For the purposes of section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 - 

(a) there are hereby designated the persons named in the Schedule; and

(b) there is hereby prescribed in relation to each such person the description of hereditament set out below the name of that person in the Schedule.

    (2) Regulation 6 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1989[3] (cross-boundary hereditaments) shall not apply to any hereditament falling within any description in the Schedule.

Content of central rating list
     4. The central rating list must show, for each day in each year for which that list is in force - 

(a) the name of each person designated by regulation 3; and

(b) against each name, each hereditament situated in Wales which on the day concerned is occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by that person, and which falls within the description prescribed in relation to that person by that regulation.

     5.  - (1) The central rating list shall also show, against the name of each designated person - 

(a) where the person is a registered company, its registered office, and in any other case the person's principal place of business within the United Kingdom;

(b) where the person is a registered company, its registered number; and

(c) the first day, if later than 1st April 2000, for which the rateable value shown in the list against the name of the designated person has effect.

    (2) The central rating list shall also show, where the list has been altered in pursuance of a direction by a tribunal, the name of the tribunal which gave the direction.

Railway Hereditaments
     6.  - (1) Regulation 3 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Railways, Telecommunications and Canals) Regulations 1994[4] is amended in relation to Wales as follows.

    (2) In paragraph (1), the definition of "the British Railways Board" is omitted.

    (3) For paragraph (1)(b)(i) there is substituted  - 

" (i)


(a) where paragraph (3) applies, which are occupied by Railtrack plc, or by a licence exempt operator or a licence holder other than Railtrack plc, or

(b) where paragraph (5) or (6) applies, which are occupied by any person designated by regulation 5(1) of, and named in Part 4 of the Schedule to, the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994,



and which are not situated on operational land of that occupier, or of another relevant person;".

    (4) At the end of paragraph (1) there is added  - 

" and 'relevant person' means - 
(i) any person designated and named as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b)(i) above, or

(ii) any licence exempt operator or licence holder which is not so designated".

    (5) There are omitted - 

(a) paragraph (2),

(b) the words "(other than the Board)" in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), and

(c) in paragraph (4), the words from the beginning to "the Board and".

Revocations and savings
     7.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), there are hereby revoked in relation to Wales with effect from 1st April 2000 the following - 

(a) the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994[5];

(b) the Central Rating Lists (Amendment) Regulations 1996[6].

    (2) The provisions mentioned in paragraph (1) shall continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2000 for the purposes of or for purposes connected with - 

(a) any alteration of the list in force immediately before 1st April 2000; or

(b) any provision made by regulations made under section 58[7] of the 1988 Act (special provision for 1995 onwards) as to the chargeable amount as regards a hereditament for a relevant period as defined in that section.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.[8]


Dafydd Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

22 December 1999

"public electricity supplier" has the same meaning as in section 6(9) of the Electricity Act 1989[9].

"excepted hereditament" means a hereditament consisting of or comprising premises used or, if unoccupied, intended to be used wholly or mainly - 

(a) for the manufacture of plant or gas fittings;

(b) as high pressure storage facilities or liquified natural gas storage facilities or facilities used or available for use in connection with offshore storage;

(c) as office premises, where those premises are not situated on operational land of BG plc; or

(d) for more than one of the foregoing purposes; and

"public gas transporter" has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986 [10]; and

references to BG plc are references to the company bearing that name on 9th November 1999.

(a) for the manufacture, storage, sale, display or demonstration of apparatus or accessories for use by consumers of water (any use for the receipt of payments for the use of water or sewerage services being disregarded); or

(b) as office premises occupied by a designated person, where those premises are not situated on operational land of that person; or

(c) for both of the foregoing purposes.

"operational land", in relation to a designated person, means land which is used for the purposes of carrying on that person's undertaking, being land which, in respect of its nature and situation, is comparable rather with land which is used for the purposes of carrying on of statutory undertakings (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990[13]) than with land in general;

and any reference to hereditaments used for any purpose includes a reference to hereditaments which are unused but in relation to which it appears that when next in use they will be used for such a purpose.

[2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3] S.I. 1989/1060.back

[4] S.I. 1994/3123.back

[5] S.I. 1994/3121.back

[6] S.I. 1996/620.back

[7] Section 58 is amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14) and by section 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1994 (c.3).back

[8] 1998 c.38.back

[9] 1989 c.29.back

[10] 1986 c.44.back

[11] 1991 c.56.back

[12] 1962 c.58.back

[13] 1990 c.8.back

  Prepared 30 October 2001