The Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 395

Rating And Valuation, England

The Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

Made

28th February 2019

Laid before Parliament

1st March 2019

Coming into force

1st April 2019

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 53(1) and 143(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 1st April 2019.

Amendment of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

2.  For regulation 12(3)(b) (electricity transmission hereditaments) of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005(2), substitute—

“(b) “National Grid” means—

(i) the company bearing the name National Grid Electricity Transmission plc on 1st January 2019; and

(ii) until the first date after 1st April 2019 on which a central non-domestic rating list is compiled for England in accordance with section 52 of the Act(3), the company bearing the name National Grid Electricity System Operator Limited on 1st January 2019.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rishi Sunak

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

28th February 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/551) (“the Central Rating List Regulations”).

The Central Rating List Regulations designate persons and prescribe in relation to those persons descriptions of non-domestic hereditament, under section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), with a view to securing the central rating en bloc of those hereditaments.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations makes amendments to regulation 12 of the Central Rating List Regulations, which deals with electricity transmission hereditaments. It updates the definition of “National Grid” to take account of a separation of the system operator functions from the electricity transmission asset. It also provides that hereditaments occupied by the system operator will fall out of the central list from the date of the next revaluation.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because it amends an existing local tax regime. Publication of a full impact assessment is not necessary for such legislation.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Section 53(1) was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

S.I. 2005/551, amended by S.I. 2016/146; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(3)

Section 52 was amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, section 60(2) of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), and sections 29 and 30 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27).