Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 525

The Central Rating Lists (England) Regulations 2000

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(a) "the 1988 Act" means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

(b) "the 1994 Regulations" means the Non-Domestic Rating (Railways, Telecommunications and Canals) Regulations 1994[2];

(c) "designated person" in relation to a central list compiled on or after 1st April 2000 means a person designated by regulation 3(1) of these Regulations;

(d) "office premises" means any hereditament constructed or adapted as offices or for office purposes, or used wholly or mainly for such purposes;

(e) "office purposes" includes the purposes of administration and clerical work and handling money; and "clerical work" includes writing, book-keeping, typing, filing, duplicating, sorting papers or information, calculating (whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means), drawing, and the editorial preparation of matter for publication;

(f) "operational land", in relation to a designated person, means land which is used for the purposes of carrying on that person's undertaking, not being land which, in respect of its nature and situation, is comparable rather with land in general than with land which is used for the purposes of carrying on of statutory undertakings (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990[3];

(g) references to a central list are to a central non-domestic rating list for England; and

(h) references to a hereditament are to a relevant non-domestic hereditament.

    (3) Any reference in these Regulations to a designated person by name is, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to the company or body registered by or bearing that name on 1st January 2000.

    (4) Any reference in these Regulations to hereditaments used for any purpose includes a reference to hereditaments which are unused but in relation to which it appears that when next in use they will be used for such a purpose.

Application
     2. These Regulations shall have effect in relation to a central list compiled on or after 1st April 2000.

    (2) Regulation 6 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1989[4] (cross-boundary hereditaments) shall not apply to any hereditament falling within any description in the Schedule.

Content of central rating lists - names and hereditaments
     4. A central list shall show, for each day in each year for which that list is in force-

(a) the name of each person designated by regulation 3; and

(b) against each name, each hereditament situated in England which on the day concerned is occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by that person, and which falls within the description prescribed in relation to that person by that regulation.

Content of central rating lists - other information
     5.  - (1) A central list shall also show, against the name of each designated person-

(a) where the person is a registered company, its registered office, and in any other case the person's principal place of business within the United Kingdom;

(b) where the person is a registered company, its registered number; and

(c) the first day, if later than 1st April 2000, for which the rateable value shown in the list against the name of the designated person has effect.

    (2) A central list shall also show, where the list has been altered in pursuance of a direction by a tribunal, the name of the tribunal which gave the direction.

"the 1993 Act" means the Railways Act 1993[5];

"excepted hereditament" means a hereditament consisting of or comprising-

(a) premises used as a shop, hotel, museum or place of public refreshment;

(b) premises used wholly or mainly as office premises which are not situated on operational land of-


(i) any person designated by regulation 3 and named in Part 4 of the Schedule, or

(ii) a licence exempt operator or licence holder;



(c) premises or rights so let out as to be capable of separate assessment, other than those falling within regulation 7(1)(b) or 8(1)(b); or

(d) premises (other than premises used in connection with the collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed or to be conveyed by rail) used wholly or in part for purposes concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by road transport or sea transport or with harbours, or for purposes incidental to such purposes;

"licence exempt operator" and "licence holder" have the meanings given by section 10(6) and section 83(1) respectively of the 1993 Act; and

"railway services" has the meaning given in section 82(1) of the 1993 Act.

Railtrack PLC
     7.  - (1) Anything which would (apart from these Regulations) be more than one hereditament shall be treated as one hereditament if it is-

(a) occupied by Railtrack PLC or, if unoccupied, owned by Railtrack PLC, or

(b) let or licensed by Railtrack PLC to a licence exempt operator or a licence holder;

and in either case is-

(i) used wholly or mainly for railway purposes; and

(ii) not comprised in an excepted hereditament.

    (2) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as occupied by Railtrack PLC.

    (3) In this regulation "railway purposes" means the purposes of providing railway services or for purposes ancillary to those purposes (including the purposes of exhibiting advertisements).

London Underground Limited
     8.  - (1) Any hereditament which would (apart from these Regulations) be more than one hereditament shall be treated as one hereditament if it is-

(a) occupied, or, if unoccupied, owned by London Underground Limited (" LUL"); or

(b) let or licensed by LUL (whether to Railtrack PLC, a subsidiary of LUL or any other person);

and in either case is-

(i) used wholly or mainly for LUL purposes, and

(ii) not comprised in an excepted hereditament.

    (2) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as occupied by LUL.

    (3) In this regulation "LUL purposes" means the purposes of the parts of LUL's undertaking which are concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by rail, or for purposes ancillary to those purposes (including the purpose of exhibiting advertisements).

Railway hereditaments: consequential
     9.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), regulation 3 of the 1994 Regulations is amended by the substitution for paragraphs (1) to (4) of the following-

    " (1) In this regulation, "excepted hereditament" means a hereditament consisting of or comprising-


(a) premises used as a shop, hotel, museum or place of public refreshment;

(b) premises used wholly or mainly as office premises-


(i) where paragraph (5) or (6) applies, which are occupied by the person named in that paragraph and which are not situated on operational land of that person or of another person designated by regulation 3 of, and named in Part 4 of the Schedule to, the Central Rating Lists [a](England) Regulations 2000; or

(ii) where paragraph (7) or (8) applies, which are occupied by Greater Manchester Metro Limited or South Yorkshire Supertram Limited, as the case may be;



(c) premises or rights so let out as to be capable of separate assessment; and

(d) premises (other than premises used in connection with the collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed or to be conveyed by rail) used wholly or in part for purposes concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by road transport or sea transport or with harbours, or for purposes incidental to such purposes.".

    (2) Nothing in this regulation affects the operation of the 1994 Regulations for the purposes of or for purposes connected with-

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

(b) any provision made by regulations made under section 58 of the 1988 Act[6] (special provision for 1995 onwards) as to the chargeable amount as regards a hereditament for a relevant period as defined in that section.

(a) the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994[7];

(b) the Central Rating Lists (Amendment) Regulations 1996[8].

    (2) Without prejudice to section 16(1) of the Interpretation Act 1978[9], the provisions mentioned in paragraph (1) shall continue to have effect 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 of the 1988 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 by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions


Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

1st March 2000

"public electricity supplier" has the same meaning as in section 6(9) of the Electricity Act 1989[11].

"public gas transporter" has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986[12].

[2] S.I. 1994/3123.back

[3] 1990 c. 8.back

[4] S.I. 1989/1060.back

[5] 1993 c. 43.back

[6] Section 58 is amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), by section 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1994 (c. 3) and paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29). See S.I. 1994/3279.back

[7] S.I. 1994/3121.back

[8] S.I. 1996/620.back

[9] 1978 c. 30.back

[10] S.I. 1994/3123.back

[11] 1989 c. 29.back

[12] 1986 c. 44.back

[13] 1991 c. 56.back

[14] 1962 c. 58.back