Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2018 No. 67
Rates
The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018
Made
28th March 2018
Coming into operation
1st April 2018
The Department of Finance makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 37 (4) and (5) of, and paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to, the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(1).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2018.
Amendment of the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
2. For Part 2 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(2) there shall be substituted the Part 2 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 28th March 2018
David Hughes
A senior officer of the Department of Finance
Regulation 2
SCHEDULEPart 2 to be substituted for Part 2 of the Schedule to the Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
Regulation 4
PART 2Gas transportation hereditaments
| Company Name |
|---|
| Belfast Gas Transmission Ltd. |
| BGE (UK) Ltd. |
| Firmus Energy (Distribution) Ltd. |
| Phoenix Natural Gas Limited – Distribution |
| Premier Transmission Limited |
| Scotia Gas Networks Northern Ireland Ltd. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Valuation (Telecommunications, Natural Gas and Water) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, (“the 2010 Regulations”), provide that certain hereditaments of any company listed in the Schedule shall, for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, be treated as a single hereditament occupied by that company.
These Regulations substitute the list of companies in Part 2 of the Schedule to the 2010 Regulations to take account of a new entrant to the gas market in Northern Ireland.
S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28); paragraph (4) of Article 37 was substituted by Article 6(1) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)); paragraph (5) of Article 37 was inserted by section 17 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (2009 c. 8 (N.I.)); and in Schedule 12 in Part I, paragraph 5 was inserted by Article 12(a) of the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3162 (N.I. 25)).
S.R. 2010 No. 431 as amended by S.R. 2014 No. 67