The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

Light railway hereditaments

7.—(1) Where a company which is a designated person by virtue of regulation 3(1) and Part 2 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns any hereditament; and if, apart from these Regulations, those hereditaments would be more than one hereditament, and each separate hereditament satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2), those separate hereditaments shall be treated as one hereditament.

(2) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) are that the hereditament is—

(a) used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the parts of its undertaking which are concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by rail, or purposes ancillary to those purposes (including the purposes of the exhibiting of advertisements); and

(b) not an excepted hereditament.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

“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 of the designated person, where those premises are not situated on the operational land of the designated person or of any person designated by regulation 3 and named in Parts 1 or 2 of the Schedule;

(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.

(4) The hereditament described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as occupied by the relevant designated person.