Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

Article 43.

SCHEDULE 14N.I.DISTINGUISHMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HEREDITAMENTS AND FREIGHT-TRANSPORT HEREDITAMENTS

1.  This Schedule applies to—N.I.

F1(a)industrial hereditaments;

(b)freight-transport hereditaments.

F1prosp. rep. by 2004 NI 4

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3.—(1) In the [F5NAV list], every freight-transport hereditament which is occupied and used either wholly or partly for transport purposes shall be distinguished as being so occupied and used, and, as respects every such hereditament occupied and used partly for transport purposes, the net annual value thereof shall be apportioned by the Commissioner or the district valuer between the occupation and use of the hereditament for transport purposes and the occupation and use for other purposes [F6(so far as relevant to its net annual value)].N.I.

(2) A freight-transport hereditament shall be distinguished in the [F7NAV list] by reference to the transport purpose or purposes for which it is occupied and used; and, where a freight-transport hereditament is occupied and used partly for one transport purpose and partly for either or both of the other transport purposes, the proportions of the net annual value of the hereditament attributable to the occupation and use thereof for the several transport purposes shall be shown in the list.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), for the purpose of determining in which proportions a freight-transport hereditament is occupied and used for transport purposes and for other purposes respectively, the hereditament shall be deemed to be occupied and used for transport purposes except in so far as it is occupied and used for the purposes of a hotel, refreshment room, dwelling-house or residence.

(4) Any part of a freight-transport hereditament which is so let out as to be capable of being separately valued shall not be deemed to be occupied and used for transport purposes unless it is actually so occupied and used.

(5) In the case of a hereditament occupied and used for canal transport purposes as part of a canal undertaking or occupied and used for dock purposes as part of a dock undertaking, any part of the hereditament, being a building, yard or other place primarily occupied and used for warehousing merchandise not in the course of being transported, shall not be deemed to be occupied and used for transport purposes.