Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

Article 3.

F1 SCHEDULE 3 N.I. DEFINITIONS RELATING TO RAILWAY HEREDITAMENTS

F1 Sch. 3 repealed (prosp.) by Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8), ss. 8(3)(d), 18, 19(1), Sch. 2

• In this Order—

• “non-running-line hereditament” means a railway hereditament which is not a running-line hereditament;

• “railway company” means a body operating a railway undertaking;

• “railway hereditament” means a hereditament occupied by a railway company for the purpose of its undertaking but does not include—

  (a)

  any hotel, refreshment room, dwelling-house, residence, town office or town receiving depot;

  (b)

  any premises used and occupied for the purposes of subsidiary services (other than those connected with the local collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed, or to be conveyed, by rail) carried on by that company for the purpose of road, sea or other transport;

  (c)

  any waterworks, electric light works, power works or gas works, unless they are used mainly to supply the undertaking;

  (d)

  any store, building or premises let by that company, or, if unused, capable of being so let;

• “running-line” means the railway line or lines which are used primarily for the conveyance of railway traffic from place to place and includes the land under, between and adjoining such line or lines, but does not include land which is the site of buildings, structures, sidings, platforms, yards and approaches;

• “running-line hereditament” means a railway hereditament which consists of running-line only.

• [F2 The Department may, by order subject to affirmative resolution, modify the provisions of this Schedule.]

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