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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2005 No. 549

RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND

The Non-Domestic Rating (Communications and Light Railways) (England) Regulations 2005

  Made 8th March 2005 
  Laid before Parliament 10th March 2005 
  Coming into force 1st April 2005 

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 64(3), 65(4) and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988[1], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, application, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations, which apply to England only, may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Communications and Light Railways) (England) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

    (2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person by name is a reference to the company or body registered by or bearing that name on 1st October 2004.

Effect
    
2. These Regulations shall have effect only in respect of local non-domestic rating lists compiled on or after 1st April 2005.

Communications hereditaments
    
3.  - (1) Where a person listed in Part 1 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns any hereditament which comprises posts, wires, fibres, cables, ducts, telephone kiosks, switching equipment, or other equipment, or easements or wayleaves, being property used for the monitoring, processing or transmission of communications or other signals for the provision of electronic communications services, and if, apart from these Regulations, those hereditaments would be more than one hereditament, those separate hereditaments shall be treated as one hereditament.

    (2) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated - 

Light railway hereditaments
    
4.  - (1) Where a person listed in Part 2 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns any hereditament which - 

and if, apart from these Regulations, those hereditaments would be more than one hereditament, those separate hereditaments shall be treated as one hereditament.

    (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), "excepted hereditament" means a hereditament consisting of or comprising - 

    (3) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated - 



Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State


Phil Hope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

8th March 2005



SCHEDULE
Regulations 3 and 4



PART 1

Communications hereditaments

Name Billing authority
Colt Telecom Group plc Common Council of the City of London
Easynet Telecommunications Limited London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
Fibernet Group plc Reading Borough Council
Gamma Telecom Holdings Limited Trafford Borough Council
Kingston Communications Limited Kingston upon Hull District Council
KPN Eurorings B.V. London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
Level 3 Communications Limited London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
MCI Worldcom Limited London Borough Council of Camden
NTL National Networks Limited Bedford Borough Council
Surf Telecoms Limited Bristol City Council
Telewest Communication Group Limited Tewkesbury Borough Council
Teliasonera International Carrier UK Limited London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
Telstra Europe Limited London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
Thus PLC London Borough Council of Tower Hamlets
VTL (UK) Limited Runnymede Borough Council
Your Communications Limited Manchester City Council



PART 2

Light railway hereditaments

Name Billing authority
Greater Manchester Metro Limited Manchester City Council
South Yorkshire Supertram Limited Sheffield City Council



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations provide in relation to England that certain property occupied, or, if unoccupied, owned by Greater Manchester Metro Limited, South Yorkshire Supertram Limited or any of the communications operators mentioned in the Schedule which would, apart from these Regulations, be more than one hereditament, shall be treated as one hereditament. These Regulations also specify who shall be treated as occupying each hereditament and the billing authority area in which each hereditament shall be treated as situated.


Notes:

[1] 1988 c.41. These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1.back



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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 11 March 2005


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