Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2421

The Non-Domestic Rating (Telecommunications Apparatus) (England) Regulations 2000

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"operator" means any person licensed for the running of a telecommunications system under section 1 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 ("the 1949 Act")[2] or section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984[3] ("the 1984 Act");

"telecommunications apparatus" includes - 

(a) telecommunications apparatus within the meaning given by Schedule 2 to the 1984 Act which is used, or designed for use, for - 


(i) wireless telegraphy within the meaning given by section 19 of the 1949 Act, or

(ii) broadcasting; and



(b) structures in the nature of huts or other buildings (including structures forming part only of a building) used, or designed for use, solely to house apparatus within the description in paragraph (a);

together with any ancillary equipment occupied exclusively for the purposes of an operator; and

"telecommunications hereditament" means - 

(a) a site forming a hereditament occupied exclusively by telecommunications apparatus, or

(b) a site which would constitute a single hereditament but for the occupation of the whole of it exclusively by telecommunications apparatus operated or owned by more than one operator,

and for the purposes of determining whether a hereditament is occupied exclusively by telecommunications apparatus, the presence on the site of, and of accommodation for, personnel for the sole purpose of maintaining, repairing, operating or safeguarding that apparatus shall be disregarded.

Treatment of telecommunications apparatus
     3.  - (1) This paragraph applies to telecommunications apparatus, other then excepted apparatus, which is - 

(a) attached to or situated in or on a telecommunications hereditament ("the principal hereditament") and

(b) so occupied or owned as to constitute (apart from this regulation) one or more hereditaments separate from the principal hereditament.

    (2) Telecommunications apparatus to which paragraph (1) applies and the hereditament which is the principal hereditament in relation to such apparatus shall, subject to paragraph (3), be treated as a single hereditament in the occupation or ownership of the host.

    (3) Paragraph (2) does not apply where a telecommunications hereditament is on or forms part of a building or structure all or any part of which is owned or occupied by the host for any purpose other than the provision of or operation of a site for telecommunications apparatus.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions


Nick Raynsford
Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

7th September 2000

[2] 1949 c. 54.back

[3] 1984 c. 12.back