The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

Water supply hereditaments

15.—(1) Where a company which is a designated person by virtue of regulation 3(1) and Part 10 of the Schedule occupies or, if it is unoccupied, owns what would, apart from these Regulations, be more than one hereditament, and each of those hereditaments satisfies the conditions set out in paragraph (2), those hereditaments shall be treated as one hereditament.

(2) The conditions are that each of the hereditaments is—

(a) used wholly or mainly for the purposes of a water undertaker or for ancillary purposes; and

(b) not an excepted hereditament.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

• “excepted hereditament“ means a hereditament consisting of or comprising one or both of the following—

  (a)

  premises used wholly or mainly for the manufacture, storage, sale, display or demonstration of apparatus or accessories for use by consumers of water (any use for the receipt of payments for the use of water or sewerage services being disregarded);

  (b)

  premises used wholly or mainly as office premises, where those premises are not situated on operational land of the designated person; and

• “water undertaker” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Water Industry Act 1991(1).

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

(1)

1991 c. 56.