
1 
This Order may be cited as the British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.
2 

(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;
 “the Company” means 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;
 “relevant pipeline” means any pipeline in Scotland occupied by the Company and having a design operating pressure exceeding 7 bars; 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 1995-96.
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—
(a) for the financial year 1995-96, is hereby prescribed as £53,343,087;
(b) for each of the following four financial years, shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—£53,343,087+£53,343,087×(A-B)Bwhere—
 A is the length of the relevant pipeline as at 31st March immediately preceding the financial year which commenced one year before the beginning of the financial year for which the calculation is being carried out; and
 B is the length of the relevant pipeline as at 31st March 1994.
6 

(1) 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 1995-96 which is prescribed by article 5(a) above shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in the amount shown opposite the name of each such local authority in column 2 of that Schedule.
(2) For those purposes, the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for each of the four financial years following financial year 1995-96 (ascertained in accordance with article 5(b) above) shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in accordance with the formula—C×D10,000where—
 C is the aggregate amount for the financial year in question; and
 D is the figure shown in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the local authority in question.
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 1995-96 and the four following financial years.
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 1995 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 1995 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 1995 Order)”.
(3) After paragraph (g) of section 2(1) of that Act there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“
(gg) by entering therein any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1995 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 paragraph (a) of section 2(2) of that Act, after the words “subsection (1)(a)” there shall be inserted the words “or (gg)”.
(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 1995 Order)”.
10 
The British Gas plc. (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1994 is hereby revoked.
George Kynoch
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
15th February 1995
SCHEDULE 1
Article 6(1)


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount £
District Councils:—
Berwickshire 755,681
Ettrick and Lauderdale 488,647
Roxburgh 131,931
Tweeddale 87,104
Clackmannan 281,735
Falkirk 1,654,813
Stirling 995,667
Annandale and Eskdale 2,383,912
Nithsdale 271,243
Stewartry 43,349
Wigtown 43,260
Dunfermline 882,527
Kirkcaldy 1,060,584
North East Fife 1,098,538
City of Aberdeen 1,882,685
Banff and Buchan 4,846,500
Gordon 2,729,968
Kincardine and Deeside 2,430,833
Moray 342,877
Caithness 27,486
Inverness 230,751
Nairn 31,124
Ross and Cromarty 10,023
East Lothian 866,417
City of Edinburgh 2,900,031
Midlothian 612,494
West Lothian 2,857,871
Argyll and Bute 123,525
Bearsden and Milngavie 254,242
Clydebank 181,727
Clydesdale 1,531,028
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 259,560
Cumnock and Doon Valley 69,192
Cunninghame 988,924
Dumbarton 500,615
East Kilbride 484,348
Eastwood 413,514
City of Glasgow 3,730,617
Hamilton 660,992
Inverclyde 442,247
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 472,294
Kyle and Carrick 591,897
Monklands 1,697,248
Motherwell 1,710,976
Renfrew 1,124,161
Strathkelvin 485,567
Angus 3,749,935
City of Dundee 1,105,625
Perth and Kinross 2,804,471
Islands Council:—
Western Isles 12,331
SCHEDULE 2
Article 6(2)


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportionment figure £
City of Aberdeen 353
Aberdeenshire 1876
Angus 722
Argyll and Bute 55
East Ayrshire 102
North Ayrshire 185
South Ayrshire 111
The Borders 274
Clackmannan 53
Dumbarton and Clydebank 96
Dumfries and Galloway 514
East Dunbartonshire 121
City of Dundee 187
City of Edinburgh 544
Falkirk 310
Fife 570
City of Glasgow 641
Highland 56
Inverclyde 83
North Lanarkshire 705
South Lanarkshire 560
East Lothian 162
Midlothian 115
West Lothian 536
Moray 64
Perthshire and Kinross 527
East Renfrewshire 106
Renfrewshire 183
Stirling 187
Western Isles 2