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These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Electricity Generators) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
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(1) This regulation applies to a non-domestic hereditament (other than a hereditament which falls, by virtue of regulations made under section 53 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, to be shown on a central rating list)—
(a) which is used or available for use for the purposes of generating electricity, where—
(i) such use is its primary function; or
(ii) its primary function is in connection with a scheme for the production for sale of both electrical power and heat; or
(iii) its primary source of energy is the burning of refuse;
and fuel used for the generation of electricity is also won and worked or produced on the hereditament; and
(b) in relation to which the generating plant—
(i) uses wind, tidal or water power as its primary source of energy; or
(ii) if its primary source of energy is the burning of refuse, and neither paragraph (i) nor paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (a) applies, has a declared net capacity of 25 megawatts or more; or
(iii) has a declared net capacity of 500 kilowatts or more; and
(c) which would, apart from these Regulations, be treated as a single hereditament.
(2) So much of a hereditament to which this regulation applies as consists of—
(a) land,
(b) plant, or
(c) buildings
used for the purposes of the winning and working or production of fuel used for the generation of electricity, shall be treated as a separate hereditament.
Michael Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
5th March 1991David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
5th March 1991