Plant and Machinery (Rating) Order, 1960
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1960/122 |
| Year | 1960 |
1960 No. 122
RATING AND VALUATION
The Plant and Machinery (Rating) Order, 196027thJanuary 1960
3rdFebruary 1960
8thFebruary 1960
The Minister of Housing and Local Government, in exercise of his powers under subsection (5) of section 24 of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925(a) (the said section having been applied to London by section 1 of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1928(b)), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—
1. This order may be cited as the Plant and Machinery (Rating) Order, 1960, and shall come into operation on the 8th day of February, 1960.
2. The Interpretation Act, 1889(c), applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. The Statement prepared in accordance with the provisions of subsection (6) of section 24 of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, by the committee appointed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government on the 26th day of November, 1957, and transmitted to the Minister on the 13th day of January, 1959, is hereby confirmed as modified and set out in the Schedule hereto and shall (subject to the provisions contained in subsection (5) of the said section 24 with respect to the presentation of an Address to Her Majesty) come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1960.
4. The Plant and Machinery (Valuation for Rating) Order, 1927(d) is hereby revoked as from the 1st day of April, 1960.
SCHEDULE
CLASSES OF MACHINERY AND PLANT TO BE DEEMED TO BE PART OF THE HEREDITAMENT
CLASS 1A
Machinery and plant specified in Table 1A (together with the appliances and structures accessory thereto specified in the List of Accessories) which is used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively in connection with the generation, storage, primary transformation or main transmission of power in or on the hereditament.
"Transformer" means any plant which changes the pressure or frequency or form of current of electrical power to another pressure or frequency or form of current, except any such plant which forms an integral part of an item of plant or machinery in or on the hereditament for manufacturing operations or trade processes.
(a) 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 90.
(b) 18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 8.
(c) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(d) S.R & O.1927/480 (Rev. XIX, p. 674: 1927, p. 1506).
"Primary transformation of power" means any transformation of electrical power by means of a transformer at any point in the main transmission of power.
"Main transmission of power" means all transmission of power from the generating plant or point of supply in or on the hereditament up to and including:—
(i) in the case of electrical power, the first transformer in any circuit, or where the first transformer precedes any distribution board or there is no transformer the first distribution board;
(ii) in the case of transmission by shafting or wheels, any shaft or wheel driven directly from the prime mover;
(iii) in the case of hydraulic or pneumatic power, the point where the main supply ceases, excluding any branch service piping connected with such main supply;
(iv) in a case where, without otherwise passing beyond the limits of the main transmission of power, power is transmitted to another hereditament, the point at which the power passes from the hereditament.
TABLE 1A
(a) Steam boilers, including their settings, and chimneys, flues and dust or grit catchers used in connection therewith: furnaces; mechanical stokers; injectors, jets, burners and nozzles; superheaters; feed water pumps and heaters; economisers; accumulators; deaerators; blow-off tanks; gas retorts and charging apparatus, producers and generators.
(b) Steam engines; steam turbines; gas turbines; internal combustion engines; hot-air engines; barring engines.
(c) Continuous and alternating current dynamos; couplings to engines and turbines; field exciter gear; three-wire or phase...
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