
1 
This Order may be cited as the British Telecommunications plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
2 

(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;
 “British Telecom” means the company registered at the date of this Order by the name of British Telecommunications plc.;
 “financial year” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st April;
 “non-domestic water rate” shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of section 40 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980; and
 “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.
(2) Any reference in this Order to—
(a) lands and heritages occupied by the British Telecom includes a reference to lands and heritages which, if unoccupied, are owned by the British Telecom; 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 any posts, wires, underground cables and ducts, telephone kiosks, switchgear and other equipment not within a building, or by servitudes or wayleaves, and being lands and heritages occupied by British Telecom and used for the purposes of telecommunications services.
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 1991-92.
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 1991-92 is hereby prescribed as £15,969,707.
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 1991-92 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 
For the purposes of section 6(5) of the 1975 Act, 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 1991-92.
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 Telecommunications plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1991 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 1991 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 1991 Order)”.
(3) After paragraph (g) of section 2(1) of that Act there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:—“
(gg) by deleting therefrom, with effect on and after 1st April 1991, any lands and heritages prescribed in the British Telecommunications plc. (Rateable Values)(Scotland) Order 1990 which were entered in the roll immediately before that date; and
(ggg) by entering therein any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1991 Order together with the rateable values apportioned by that Order to the local authorities whose areas comprise or form part of the valuation area;”.
(4) In section 2(2)(a) of that Act, after the reference to “subsection (1)(a)”, there shall be inserted the words “or (ggg)”.
(5) In section 3(2) of that Act, for the words from “and any such person” to the end, there shall be substituted the following:—“and, where the entry relates to any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1991 Order, any such person may at any time while the roll is in force appeal against the entry but only on the ground that there is such an error in the entry as is referred to in section 2(1)(f) of this Act.”.
(6) 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 1991 Order)”.
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
29th March 1991
SCHEDULE
Article 6


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount
District Councils:—
Berwickshire £ 62,102
Ettrick and Lauderdale 121,649
Roxburgh 114,126
Tweeddale 47,142
Clackmannan 108,719
Falkirk 379,781
Stirling 270,303
Annandale and Eskdale 102,266
Nithsdale 180,912
Stewarty 76,718
Wigtown 93,641
Dunfermline 337,160
Kirkcaldy 397,540
North East Fife 196,732
City of Aberdeen 980,424
Banff and Buchan 253,373
Gordon 202,005
Kincardine and Deeside 133,884
Moray 243,393
Badenoch and Strathspey 44,062
Caithness 84,921
Inverness 242,496
Lochaber 71,075
Nairn 28,360
Ross and Cromarty 155,542
Skye and Lochalsh 46,605
Sutherland 50,989
East Lothian 216,953
City of Edinburgh 1,901,478
Midlothian 183,577
West Lothian 392,193
Argyll and Bute 253,787
Bearsden and Milngavie 93,953
Clydebank 137,476
Clydesdale 137,873
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 163,922
Cumnock and Doon Valley 92,290
Cunninghame 352,868
Dumbarton 205,030
East Kilbride 235,565
Eastwood 103,459
City of Glasgow 2,531,326
Hamilton 290,820
Inverclyde 231,265
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 214,307
Kyle and Carrick 356,859
Monklands 242,394
Motherwell 347,440
Renfrew 612,171
Strathkelvin 190,477
Angus 273,230
City of Dundee 545,093
Perth and Kinross 420,126
Islands Council:—
Orkney 70,087
Shetland 80,901
Western Isles 84,597