Statutory Instrument 2000 No 352 (W. 10)

The BG plc (Rateable Value) (Wales) Order 2000

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"Welsh gas hereditaments" ("hereditamentau nwy Cymru") means non-domestic hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by BG plc and required by virtue of regulation 3(1) of, and Part 3 of the Schedule to, the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999[3] to be shown in a central rating list; and

"year" ("blwyddyn") means a chargeable financial year.

Rateable value
     3. In the case of Welsh gas hereditaments, paragraphs 2 to 2B[4] of Schedule 6 to the Act shall not apply in any year beginning on or after 1st April 2000 and in any such year the rateable value of the Welsh gas hereditaments shall be £32,059,000.

Revocation and savings
     4.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994[5] is hereby revoked with effect from 1st April 2000.

    (2) The British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994 shall continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2000 for the purposes of or for purposes connected with-

(a) any alteration of a list in force immediately before 1st April 2000; or

(b) any provision made by regulations made under section 58[6] of the Act (special provision for 1995 onwards) as to the chargeable amount as regards a hereditament for a relevant period as defined in that section.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[7].


Dafydd Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

31st January 2000

[2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3] S.I. 1999/ 3453(W.50)back

[4] Paragraph 2 is amended by, and paragraphs 2A and 2B are inserted by, paragraph 38(3) to (11) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.back

[5] S.I. 1994/3283.back

[6] Section 58 is amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14) and section 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1994.back

[7] 1998 c.38.back