Name, application and commencement

1.  The name of these Regulations, which apply to Wales only, is the Central Rating List (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and they shall come into force on 1st August 2001.

Amendment to the 1999 Regulations

2.—(1) The Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999(3) are amended as follows.

(2) After Regulation 5 insert—

“Independent Gas Transporters

5A.—(1) Hereditaments (other than excepted hereditaments) which are occupied, or if unoccupied are owned, by a person designated by being named in Part 3A of the Schedule and are used, or if they were occupied would be used, wholly or mainly for the purposes of that person acting as a public gas transporter and which would, apart from this Regulation, constitute more than one hereditament shall be treated as a single hereditament.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a)“excepted hereditament” means a hereditament consisting of or comprising premises used wholly or mainly as office premises where those premises are not situated on operational land of the designated person; and

(b)“public gas transporter” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986 (4)

(3) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as occupied by the designated person.”

(3) In the Schedule, after Part 3, insert—

“Part 3AIndependent Gas Transporters

• Designated person

  British Gas Connections Limited

  TotalFinaElf Pipelines Limited

  The Gas Transportation Company Limited

  SSE Pipelines Limited

  ScottishPower Gas Limited

  East Midlands Pipelines Limited

  GTC Pipelines Limited

  Energi Link Limited

  Hyder Gas Networks Limited

  E.S. Pipelines Limited

• Relevant hereditaments

  Hereditaments described in Regulation 5A.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

With a view to securing the central rating en bloc of certain hereditaments, regulations may be made under section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which designate a person and prescribe in relation to that person one or more descriptions of non-domestic hereditament.

The principal Regulations made under this power are the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999 which have effect with respect to any central rating list for Wales compiled on or after 1st April 2000.

These Regulations amend the principal Regulations by designating a group of gas transporting companies and providing that the prescribed hereditaments which each of them uses for the purposes of acting as a public gas transporter are rated as a single hereditament.