The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

Amendment of the 2000 Regulations

17.—(1) The Central Rating Lists (England) Regulations 2000(1) are amended, with effect from 1st October 2001, as follows.

(2) In paragraph (3) of regulation 1—

(a) at the beginning of sub-paragraph (a), in place of “Subject to subparagraph (b)”, substitute—

• “Subject to sub-paragraphs (b) and (c)”; and

  (b)

  at the end of paragraph (3) add the following—

  “(c) in Part 2 of the Schedule—

  (i) references to a designated person by name are references to the company bearing that name on 1st October 2001; and

  (ii) references to National Grid are references to the company bearing the name the National Grid Company plc on 1st October 2001 and each subsidiary of National Grid Transco plc existing between 1st October 2001 and 31st March 2005.”.

(3) For the table in Part 2 of the Schedule, substitute—

“PART 2 Electricity Supply Hereditaments

Designated person	Relevant Hereditaments
National Grid	Hereditaments (other than excepted hereditaments) wholly or mainly used for the purposes of the transformation or transmission of electrical power, or for ancillary purposes.
East Midlands Electricity Distribution plc Eastern Electricity Limited GPU Power Networks (UK) plc London Power Networks plc Manweb plc Northern Electric Distribution Limited Norweb plc Seeboard Power Networks plc Southern Electric Power Distribution plc SP Distribution Limited Western Power Distribution (South Wales) plc Western Power Distribution (South West) plc Yorkshire Electricity Distribution plc	Hereditaments (other than excepted hereditaments) wholly or mainly used for the purposes of the functions of a public electricity supplier, or for ancillary purposes.

In this Part—

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

(a)

premises used wholly or mainly as a shop or other place for the sale, display or demonstration of apparatus or accessories for use by consumers of electricity (any use for the receipt of payments for the use of electricity being disregarded);

(b)

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

“public electricity supplier” has the same meaning as in section 6(9) of the Electricity Act 1989; and

“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985”.

(1)

SI 2000/525.