
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the British Telecommunications plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1994 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) This Order shall have effect as from 1st April 1994.
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 British Telecom includes a reference to lands and heritages which, if unoccupied, are owned by 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 1994-95.
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 1994-95 is hereby prescribed as £22,269,317.
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 1994-95 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 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 1994-95.
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 1994 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 1994 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 1994 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 1994, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1994 Order which were entered in the roll before the date of coming into force of that Order;(ggg) by entering therein, with effect from 1st April 1994, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1994 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 1994 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 1994 Order)”.
10 
The British Telecommunications plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993 is hereby revoked.
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
29th July 1994
SCHEDULE
Article 6


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount
District Councils:
Berwickshire £ 86,600
Ettrick and Lauderdale 169,636
Roxburgh 159,145
Tweeddale 65,739
Clackmannan 151,606
Falkirk 529,594
Stirling 376,930
Annandale and Eskdale 142,607
Nithsdale 252,276
Stewartry 106,982
Wigtown 130,580
Dunfermline 470,161
irkcaldy 554,359
North East Fife 274,338
City of Aberdeen 1,367,174
Banff and Buchan 353,321
Gordon 281,690
Kincardine and Deesdie 186,697
Moray 339,405
Badenoch and Strathspey 61,443
Caithness 118,420
Inverness 338,155
Lochaber 99,112
Nairn 39,547
Ross and Cromarty 216,899
Skye and Lochalsh 64,990
Sutherland 71,103
East Lothian 302,534
City of Edinburgh 2,651,559
Midlothian 255,994
West Lothian 546,903
Argyll and Bute 328,798
Bearsden and Milngavie 131,015
Clydebank 192,083
Clydesdale 192,260
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 228,585
Cumnock and Doon Valley 128,696
Cunninghame 492,065
Dumbarton 285,908
East Kilbride 328,490
Eastwood 144,270
City of Glasgow 3,529,865
Hamilton 405,540
Inverclyde 322,492
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 298,845
Kyle and Carrick 497,630
Monklands 338,011
Motherwell 484,496
Renfrew 853,655
Strathkelvin 265,615
Angus 381,011
City of Dundee 760,117
Perth and Kinross 585,854
Islands Council
Orkney 97,735
Shetland 112,814
Western Islands 117,968