The British Waterways Board (Rateable Values) Order 1989

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

• “canal hereditaments” means non-domestic hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by the British Waterways Board and required by virtue of Part 1 of the Schedule to the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1989 (1)to be shown in a central non-domestic rating list; and “English canal hereditaments” means all such hereditaments so required to be shown in the central rating list for England; and “Welsh canal hereditaments” means all such hereditaments so required to be shown in the central rating list for Wales;

• “commercial waterway” and “cruising waterway” on any day mean any inland waterway (whether natural or artificial) which is on that day occupied by the Board and classified in accordance with section 104 of the Transport Act 1968 (2)as commercial waterway or, as the case may be, cruising waterway;

• “year” means a chargeable financial year, and

any reference to the length of a waterway is to that length estimated to the nearest kilometre.

(1)

S.I. 1989/2263

(2)

1968 c. 73