The Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 1994

2. Introductory Text

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation for Rating...

3. 2. For the purpose of determining the rateable value of a...

4. 3. The valuation officer shall, on being so required in writing...

5. 4. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Valuation for Rating (Plant...

6. Signature

7. 1. SCHEDULE

      CLASSES OF PLANT AND MACHINERY TO BE ASSUMED TO BE PART OF THE HEREDITAMENT

      1. CLASS 1

         1. Plant and machinery specified in Table 1 below (together with...

         2. In this Class– (a) “transformer” means any plant which changes...

      2. TABLE 1

         1. (a) Steam boilers (including their settings) and chimneys, flues and...

      3. CLASS 2

         1. Plant and machinery specified in Table 2 below (together with...

         2. In this Class, “services” means heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting, draining...

      4. TABLE 2

         1. (a)

            GENERAL

            1. Any of the plant and machinery specified in Table 1...

         2. (b)

            HEATING, COOLING AND VENTILATING

            1. (i) Water heaters. (ii) Headers and manifolds; steam pressure reducing...

         3. (c)

            LIGHTING

            1. (i) Gas pressure regulators; gas burners. (ii) Plug-sockets and other...

         4. (d)

            DRAINING

            1. Pumps and other lifting apparatus; tanks; screens; sewage treatment plant...

         5. (e)

            SUPPLYING WATER

            1. Pumps and other water-lifting apparatus; sluice-gates; tanks, filters and other...

         6. (f)

            PROTECTION FROM HAZARDS

            1. Tanks; lagoons; reservoirs; pumps, hydrants and monitors; fire alarm systems;...

      5. 1. 1. Any of the following plant and machinery which is used...

         2. 2. Any of the following plant and machinery which is used...

      6. CLASS 3

         1. The following items— (a) railway and tramway lines and tracks...

         2. In this paragraph, “relevant premises” means a factory or petroleum...

      7. CLASS 4

         1. The items specified in Tables 3 and 4 below, except–...

      8. TABLE 3

         1. Blast furnaces.

         2. Bridges.

         3. Bunds.

         4. Chimneys and flues.

         5. Coking ovens.

         6. Cooling ponds.

         7. Floating pontoons, with any bridges or gangways not of a...

         8. Flumes, conduits and ducts.

         9. Foundations, settings, fixed gantries, supports, walkways, stairways, handrails, catwalks, stages,...

         10. Headgear for– mines, quarries and pits; wells.

         11. Masts (including guy ropes) and towers for radar or communications...

         12. Pits, beds and bays.

         13. Radio telescopes.

         14. Shiplifts and building berths.

         15. Tipplers.

         16. Transversers and turntables.

         17. Well casings and liners.

      9. TABLE 4

         1. Accelerators.

         2. Acid concentrators.

         3. Bins and hoppers.

         4. Boilers.

         5. Bunkers.

         6. Burners, converters, furnaces, kilns, stoves and ovens.

         7. Chambers and vessels.

         8. Condensers and scrubbers.

         9. Coolers, chillers and quenchers.

         10. Cupolas.

         11. Cyclones.

         12. Economisers, heat exchangers, recuperators, regenerators and superheaters.

         13. Evaporators.

         14. Filters and separators.

         15. Gas producers, generators, purifiers, cleansers and holders.

         16. Hydraulic accumulators.

         17. Precipitators.

         18. Reactors.

         19. Refuse destructors and incinerators.

         20. Retorts.

         21. Silos.

         22. Stills.

         23. Tanks.

         24. Towers and columns.

         25. Vats.

         26. Washeries for coal.

         27. Wind tunnels.

8. Explanatory Note