
1 
This Order may be cited as the British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
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 1993-94.
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 1993-94 is hereby prescribed as £43,462,430.
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 1993-94 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 1993-94.
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 1993 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 1993 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 1993 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 from 1st April 1993, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1992 which were entered in the roll immediately before that date;(ggg) by entering therein, with effect from 1st April 1993, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1993 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 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 1993 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 a clerical error in that entry.”.
(5) 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 1993 Order)”.
10 
The British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1992 is hereby revoked.
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th March 1993
SCHEDULE
Article 6


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount
District Councils:–
Berwickshire £ 615,708
Ettrick and Lauderdale 398,136
Roxburgh 107,494
Tweeddale 70,970
Clackmannan 229,549
Falkirk 1,348,294
Stirling 811,241
Annandale and Eskdale 1,942,343
Nithsdale 221,001
Stewartry 35,320
Wigtown 35,247
Dunfermline 719,059
Kirkcaldy 864,134
North East Fife 895,057
City of Aberdeen 1,533,958
Banff and Buchan 3,948,790
Gordon 2,224,300
Kincardine and Deeside 1,980,573
Moray 279,367
Caithness 22,395
Inverness 188,008
Nairn 25,359
Ross and Cromarty 8,167
East Lothian 705,933
City of Edinburgh 2,362,863
Midlothian 499,043
West Lothian 2,328,512
Argyll and Bute 100,644
Bearsden and Milngavie 207,149
Clydebank 148,066
Clydesdale 1,247,438
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 211,482
Cumnock and Doon Valley 56,376
Cunninghame 805,747
Dunbarton 407,887
East Kilbride 394,633
Eastwood 336,920
City of Glasgow 3,039,600
Hamilton 538,558
Inverclyde 360,330
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 384,812
Kyle and Carrick 482,261
Monklands 1,382,869
Motherwell 1,394,055
Renfrew 915,934
Strathkelvin 395,626
Angus 3,055,340
City of Dundee 900,832
Perth and Kinross 2,285,003
Islands Council:—
Western Isles 10,047