The Electricity Supply Industry (Rateable Values) (Wales) Order 2000

PART III ELECTRICITY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND SUPPLY: CENTRAL LISTS

Interpretation

7.—(1) In this Part —

• “Central List Regulations” (“Rheoliadau'r Rhestr Ganolog”) means the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999(1);

• “the central list” (“y rhestr ganolog”) means the central non-domestic rating list for Wales compiled on 1st April 2000;

• “a class of hereditaments” (“dosbarth ar hereditamentau”) means such of those hereditaments to be shown in the central rating list for Wales by virtue of regulation 3(1) of and Part 2 of the Schedule to the Central List Regulations as are occupied by any one designated person named in the Schedule to this Order;

• “designated person” (“person dynodedig”) means a person designated by regulation 3(1) of and named in Part 2 of the Schedule to the Central List Regulations;

• “recalculation factor” (“ffactor ailgyfrifo”) in relation to a class of hereditaments means the factor determined in relation to that class in accordance with article 9 or 10, as the case may be;

• “relevant year” (“blwyddyn berthnasol”) means any year for which a rateable value is to be determined in accordance with this Order and “relevant preceding year” (“blwyddyn berthnasol flaenorol”) means the year preceding a relevant year; and

• “standard formula” (“fformwla safonol”) in relation to a class of hereditaments means the formula

  T + U

  where—

  • T is the amount specified in the Schedule to this Order in relation to that class; and

  • U is the recalculation factor applicable to that class in respect of the relevant year.

(2) Any reference in this Part to hereditaments occupied by a person includes a reference, in the case of unoccupied hereditaments, to hereditaments owned by that person, references to occupation being construed accordingly.

(3) Any reference in this Part or in the Schedule to a designated person by name is to the company bearing that name at the date that name is entered in the central list.

Rateable Values

8.  In the case of each class of hereditaments, paragraphs 2 to 2B of Schedule 6 to the Act shall not apply in any year in which the central list is in force and its rateable value shall be —

(a) in the year beginning on 1st April 2000 the amount specified in relation to it in the Schedule; and

(b) in any other year beginning on or before1st April 2004 shall be the amount produced by applying the standard formula in relation to that class.

Transmission Hereditaments: Recalculation Factor

9.  In relation to each class of hereditaments listed in Part A of the Schedule the recalculation factor in respect of a relevant year shall be the figure produced for that class by applying the formula —

where —

• T is the amount specified in relation to that class in the Schedule;

• k is the estimated number of circuit kilometres of main transmission line occupied by the designated person as respects that class on 31st March in the relevant preceding year; and

• K is the estimated number of circuit kilometres of main transmission line occupied by that person on 31st March 2000.

Distribution Hereditaments: Recalculation Factor

10.  In relation to each class of hereditaments listed in Part B of the Schedule, the recalculation factor in respect of a relevant year shall be the figure produced for that class by applying the formula —

where —

• T is the amount specified in relation to that class in the Schedule;

• v is the estimated installed transformer capacity (measured in kilovoltamperes) of all the electricity transformation plant occupied by the designated person as respects that class on 31st March in the relevant preceding year; and

• V is the estimated installed transformer capacity (measured in kilovoltamperes) of such plant on 31st March 2000.

(1)

S.I. 1999/3453 (W.50).