
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the BG plc (Rateable Value) (Wales) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the 1st April 2000.
(2) This Order applies only to Wales.
2 
In this Order–
 “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
 “BG plc” (“BG plc”) means the company registered bearing that name on 9th November 1999;
 “Welsh gas hereditaments” (“hereditamentau nwy Cymru”) means non-domestic hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by BG plc and required by virtue of regulation 3(1) of, and Part 3 of the Schedule to, the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999 to be shown in a central rating list; and
 “year” (“blwyddyn”) means a chargeable financial year.
3 
In the case of Welsh gas hereditaments, paragraphs 2 to 2B of Schedule 6 to the Act shall not apply in any year  for which the central non-domestic rating list for Wales compiled on 1st April 2000 is in force and in any such year the rateable value of the Welsh gas hereditaments shall be £32,059,000.
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994 is hereby revoked with effect from 1st April 2000.
(2) The British Gas plc (Rateable Values) Order 1994 shall continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2000 for the purposes of or for purposes connected with–
(a) any alteration of a list in force immediately before 1st April 2000; or
(b) any provision made by regulations made under section 58 of the Act (special provision for 1995 onwards) as to the chargeable amount as regards a hereditament for a relevant period as defined in that section.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.
Dafydd Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
