
1 
This Order may be cited as the British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
2 

(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–
 “the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;
 “the Company” means the Company registered at the date of this Order by the name of British Gas plc.;
 “financial year” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st April;
 “gas” means any substance which is, or if it were in a gaseous state would be, gas within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986;
 “non-domestic water rate” shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of section 40 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980;
 “prescribed class of lands and heritages” means the class of lands and heritages prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act in article 3 of this Order; and
 “services” means the pipe and other apparatus installed for each consumer between the distribution mains and the consumer’s gas meter.
(2) Any reference in this Order to–
(a) lands and heritages occupied by the Company includes a reference to lands and heritages which, if unoccupied, are owned by the Company; and
(b) lands and heritages used for any purpose includes a reference to lands and heritages which are unused but in relation to which it appears that, when next in use, they will be used for such a purpose.
3 
The following class of lands and heritages is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act, namely any lands and heritages in Scotland occupied by the Company and used for any of the purposes of production, treatment, transmission, distribution or storage of gas, including plant and equipment installed therein or thereon and, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, gas terminals, gas research stations, pressure reduction stations, governor stations, holder stations, mains, services and radio stations, insofar as any of them is used for any of the foregoing purposes.
4 
The non-domestic water rate shall not be leviable in respect of the prescribed class of lands and heritages in respect of the financial year 1990-91.
5 
For the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act, the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 1990-91 is hereby prescribed as £31,180,000.
6 
For the purposes of section 6(2) of the 1975 Act, the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 1990-91 which is prescribed by article 5 shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order in the amount shown opposite to the name of each such local authority in column 2 of that Schedule.
7 
The following amendments shall be made to the enactments specified in articles 8 and 9 below in their relation to the valuation of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 1990-91.
8 
In section 6(1) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956, after the words “this Act”, there shall be inserted the words “and to any Order made by the Secretary of State under section 6 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975”.
9 

(1) Section 2(1)(c) of the 1975 Act shall be amended by inserting at the end the following:–“
(iii) upon their ceasing to be lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1990 (hereinafter referred to as “the 1990 Order”);”.
(2) Section 2(1)(d) of that Act shall be amended by inserting after the words “lands and heritages” the following words:–“
 (other than lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1990 Order)”.
(3) Section 2(1)(f) of that Act shall be amended by inserting at the end the following:-“
 (other than an entry relating to lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1990 Order);”.
(4) Section 2(1)(g) of that Act shall be amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:–“
(gg) by entering therein any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1990 Order together with the rateable values apportioned by that Order to the local authorities whose areas comprise or form part of the valuation area;”.
(5) In section 2(2)(a) of that Act, after the reference to “subsection (1)(a)”, insert the words “or (gg)”.
(6) In section 3(2) of that Act, after the reference to “2(1)(g)”, insert the words “or (gg)”.
(7) In section 3(4) of that Act, after the words “lands and heritages” where they appear for the first time, there shall be inserted the following:–“
 (other than lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1990 Order)”.
10 
The British Gas Corporation (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1985 is hereby revoked.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th March 1990
SCHEDULE
Article 6


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount
District Councils:–
Berwickshire £ 441,709
Ettrick and Lauderdale  285,623
Roxburgh   77,116
Tweeddale   50,914
Clackmannan  164,679
Falkirk  967,268
Stirling  581,985
Annandale and Eskdale  1,393,440
Nithsdale  158,546
Stewartry   25,338
Wigtown   25,286
Dunfermline  515,853
Kirkcaldy  619,931
North East Fife  642,115
Aberdeen City  1,100,463
Banff and Buchan  2,832,867
Gordon  1,595,716
Kincardine and Deeside  1,420,866
Moray  200,418
Caithness   16,066
Inverness  134,878
Nairn   18,193
Ross and Cromarty   5,859
East Lothian  506,436
Edinburgh City  1,695,121
Midlothian  358,014
West Lothian  1,670,477
Argyll and Bute   72,202
Bearsden and Milngavie  148,609
Clydebank  106,223
Clydesdale  894,914
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth  151,717
Cumnock and Doon Valley   40,444
Cunninghame  578,044
Dumbarton  292,618
East Kilbride  283,110
Eastwood  241,707
Glasgow City  2,180,613
Hamilton  386,362
Inverclyde  258,501
Kilmarnock and Loudon  276,065
Kyle and Carrick  345,975
Monklands  992,072
Motherwell  1,000,097
Renfrew  657,092
Strathkelvin  283,823
Angus  2,191,905
Dundee City  646,258
Perth and Kinross  1,639,264
Islands Council
Western Isles   7,208