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(1) 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 (2)
(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.”.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3).
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
14th July 2001