The Drainage Rates (Appeals) Regulations 1970

Hereditaments occupied for purposes of extensive undertakings

5.—(1) This regulation applies where a divided hereditament consists of or includes any land to which paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This paragraph applies to land which is occupied—

(a) for the purposes of the Post Office; or

(b) for the purposes of a statutory water undertaking; or

(c) for the purposes of any of the following Boards, that is to say, the British Railways Board, the London Passenger Transport Board and the British Waterways Board; or

(d) by the National Coal Board; or

(e) by a Gas Board or the Gas Council or an Electricity Board.

(3) In a case to which this regulation applies the prescribed panel shall be the panel for that one of the relevant panel areas which contains a greater portion of the drainage district in which the hereditament is comprised than the portion of that district comprised in any other relevant panel area.

(4) In this regulation—

“Electricity Board” has the meaning assigned to it by section 34(5) of the Act of 1967;

“Gas Board” means an Area Board within the meaning of the Gas Act 1948; and

“statutory water undertaking” has the meaning assigned to it by section 31 of the Act of 1967.