The Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made: 15th May 2012

Laid before Parliament: 21st May 2012

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 53(1), (2) and (4), and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:

Application, citation and commencement

1

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, may be cited as the Central Rating List (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force—

• (a) for all purposes other than those of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 2(2), on 15th June 2012;

• (b) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 2(2), with effect from 15th December 2011.

Amendment of the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005

2

• (1) The Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In Part 12 of the Schedule (long distance pipeline hereditaments), in the column headed “Designated person”—

• (a) omit the words “BP Exploration Operating Company Limited”; and

• (b) below the words “Mainline Pipelines Limited” insert—

with effect from 15th December 2011, the company bearing the name Perenco UK Limited on that date

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Bob Neill — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Communities and Local Government — 15th May 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Central Rating List (England) Regulations 2005 (“the Central Rating List Regulations”).

The Central Rating List Regulations designate persons and prescribe in relation to those persons descriptions of non-domestic hereditament, under section 53(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, with a view to securing the central rating en bloc of those hereditaments.

The Schedule to the Central Rating List Regulations lists all designated persons and sets out the description of hereditament prescribed in relation to each of them. Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends Part 12 of the Schedule (long distance pipe-line hereditaments) to reflect changes in ownership and occupation of certain long distance pipe-lines.

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 company added to the list by regulation 2(2)(b) is added with effect from the dates on which ownership of the relevant pipelines transferred to that company.

A full impact assessment had not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c.41. Section 53 was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42). These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672): see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2005/551, amended by S.I. 2008/429, S.I. 2010/456, S.I. 2010/2692 and S.I. 2011/2743. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.