7.—(1) The following provisions of this regulation shall apply where—
(a)a divided hereditament, not being a hereditament to which regulation 5 applies, consists of or includes two or more rating units, or parts of two or more rating units, or one or more rating units and parts of other rating units; and
(b)all such rating units are within the same curtilage or contiguous and in the same occupation but (in either case) within not more than two panel areas.
(2) If in one relevant panel area there are situated rating units having in the aggregate and according to the valuation lists for the time being in force or, if there are no relevant entries in those valuation lists, according to entries included in proposals made by the valuation officer, a greater rateable value than the rating units situated within the other relevant panel area, the prescribed panel shall be the panel for the relevant panel area first mentioned in this paragraph.
(3) If there is an equality of the aggregate rateable values of the said rating units or, where there is no entry in the valuation list, an equality of the aggregate rateable values of the entries included in proposals made by the valuation officer, the prescribed panel shall be the panel for such one of the relevant panel areas as the Minister may determine.