The Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/441
• Sections: 5

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 7th April 1989.

Section 2

In relation to any hereditament other than a hereditament which is valued on the profits basis, in applying the provision of sub-paragraphs (1) to (7) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988–

(a) all such plant or machinery in or on the hereditament as belongs to any of the classes set out in the Schedule shall be assumed to be part of the hereditament; and

(b) the value of all other plant and machinery in or on the hereditament shall be assumed to have no effect on the rent to be estimated as required by paragraph 2(1).

Section 3

The valuation officer shall, on being so required in writing by the occupier of any hereditament, supply to him particulars in writing showing what machinery and plant, or whether any particular machinery or plant, has been assumed in pursuance of regulation 2(a) to form part of the hereditament.

Section 1

Any of the following machinery and plant which is used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively in connection with the handling, preparing or storing of fuel required for the generation or storage of power in or on the hereditament–

Cranes with their grabs or buckets; truck or wagon tipplers; elevating and conveying systems, including power winches, drags, elevators, hoists, conveyors, transporters, travellers, cranes, buckets forming a connected part of any such system, and any weighing machines used in connection therewith; magnetic separators; driers; breakers; pulverisers; bunkers; gas-holders; tanks.

Section 2

Any of the following machinery and plant which is used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively as part of or in connection with or as an accessory to any of the machinery and plant falling within Class 1A or Class 1B–

(i) Foundations, settings, gantries, supports, platforms and stagings for machinery and plant;

(ii) Steam-condensing plant, compressors, exhausters, storage cylinders and vessels, fans, pumps and ejectors; ash-handling apparatus;

(iii) Travellers and cranes;

(iv) Oiling systems; earthing systems; cooling systems;

(v) Pipes, ducts, valves, traps, separators, filters, coolers, screens, purifying and other treatment apparatus, evaporators, tanks, exhaust boxes and silencers, washers, scrubbers, condensers, air heaters and air saturators;

(vi) Shafting supports, belts, ropes and chains;

(vii) Cables, conductors, wires, pipes, tubes, conduits, casings, poles, supports, insulators, joint boxes and end boxes;

(viii) Instruments and apparatus attached to the machinery and plant, including meters, gauges, measuring and recording instruments, automatic controls, temperature indicators and alarms and relays.