Article 1Citation commencement and interpretation#
(1)This Order may be cited as the Gas and Electricity Industries (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
(2)In this Order, any reference to a company by name is to the company bearing that name at the date of the Central Rating Lists (Amendment) Regulations 1990 .
Article 9(b) of the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1989 shall be amended by the substitution of the factor C for the factor U in the first place in which it occurs in formula 2.
(1)The Schedule to the Electricity Supply Industry (Rateable Values) Order 1989 shall be amended as provided in the Schedule to this Order.
(2)Article 13 of that Order shall be amended as follows:
(a)in paragraph (1), after “the Schedule” there shall be inserted “except those mentioned in paragraph (1A)”; and
(b)there shall be inserted after paragraph (1) —“1A In relation to electricity hereditaments —i in England andii in Walesoccupied by Nuclear Electric plc, the recalculation factor in respect of any relevant year shall be the figure produced by calculating in relation to each class of hereditaments in accordance with the formula —£18,100 (D − d)where D and d have the meanings attributed by paragraph (1).”
(1)The Electricity Generators (Rateable Values) Order 1989 [Footnote e] shall be amended as provided in this article.
(2)For article 3(2) there shall be substituted:“2 The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) are that —a the hereditament is used or available for use for the purposes of generating electricity, where —i such use is its sole or primary function; orii it is so used or available in connection with a scheme for the production for sale of both electrical power and heat; oriii its primary source of energy is the burning of refuse; andb the generating plant —i uses wind, tidal or water power as its primary source of energy; orii if its primary source of energy is the burning of refuse, has a declared net capacity of 25 megawatts or more; oriii has a declared net capacity of 500 kilowatts or more.”
(3)In article 4(1), after “wind” there shall be inserted “or tidal” .