EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”).
Under sections 53, 64(3) and 65(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the Act”), the 2005 Regulations prescribe the hereditaments which are to be listed on central non-domestic rating lists for England compiled on or after 1st April 2005 and designate the persons who will be considered to be in occupation or, if unoccupied, ownership of those hereditaments for the purposes of rating (“designated persons”).
The Schedule to the 2005 Regulations lists the persons designated as occupying centrally listed hereditaments. Regulation 2 of these Regulations makes amendments concerned with designated persons in Part 12 (long distance pipe-line hereditaments) to reflect changes in occupation of certain long distance pipe-line hereditaments.
Section 53(4) of the Act provides that amending regulations altering the designated person in relation to a description of hereditament may have effect from a date earlier than that on which the amending regulations are made. Pursuant to that power, the companies added to the list by regulation 2 are added with effect from the date on which they began to occupy central list hereditaments.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.