
1 
This Order may be cited as the Railtrack 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 Board” means the British Railways Board;
 “clerical work” includes writing, book-keeping, typing, filing, duplicating, sorting papers or information, calculating (whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means), drawing, and the editorial preparation of matter for publication;
 “the Company” means Railtrack 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;
 “office premises” means any lands and heritages constructed or adapted as offices or for office purposes, or used wholly or mainly for such purposes;
 “office purposes” includes the purposes of administration and clerical work and handling money;
 “operational land”, in relation to the Company or the Board, means land which is used for the purposes of carrying on the undertaking of the Company or the Board, not being land which, in respect of its nature and situation, is comparable rather with land in general than with land which is used for the purposes of carrying on of statutory undertakings (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972); 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 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 

(1) 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 (other than the lands and heritages mentioned in paragraph (2) below) occupied by the Company and used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the parts of the undertaking of the Company which are concerned with the carriage of goods and passengers by rail, or for purposes ancillary to those purposes.
(2) The lands and heritages mentioned in this paragraph are lands and heritages consisting of or comprising—
(a) premises used as a shop, hotel, museum or place of public refreshment;
(b) premises used wholly or mainly as office premises occupied by the Company which are not situated on operational land of the Company or on operational land of the Board;
(c) premises (other than premises used in connection with the collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed or to be conveyed by rail) used wholly or in part for purposes concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by road transport or sea transport or with harbours, or for purposes incidental to such purposes;
(d) premises used for more than one of the foregoing purposes; or
(e) premises or rights so let out as to be capable of separate assessment.
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 

(1) 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 £15,005,000;
(b) for each of the following four financial years, shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—A3,053,281×£15,005,000where—
 A is the total of the relevant figures for each local authority area in Scotland (other than the areas of the councils for the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands and the Western Isles) for the financial year in question, calculated as provided for in paragraph (2) below.
(2) The relevant figure for a local authority area and a financial year shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—(B×D)+((C-B)×E)where—
 B is the total area (measured in hectares) of lands and heritages within the prescribed class of lands and heritages—
(a) which are situated in the area of the local authority in question; and
(b) on which there is railway track or sidings,on the day falling 1 year prior to the beginning of the financial year for which the calculation is being carried out;
 C is the total area (measured in hectares) of lands and heritages within the prescribed class of lands and heritages which are situated in the area of that local authority on that day;
 D is the figure appearing opposite the name of that local authority in column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order; and
 E is the figure appearing opposite the name of that local authority in column 3 of that Schedule.
(3) Where (apart from this paragraph) the total area of lands and heritages ascertained for the purposes of the definition of “B” or “C” in paragraph (2) above would include a fraction of a hectare—
(a) the fraction shall be made up to one hectare if it exceeds 0.5 of a hectare; and
(b) the fraction shall be ignored if it is 0.5 of a hectare or less.
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(1)(a) above shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 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 the financial year 1995-96 (calculated in accordance with article 5(1)(b) above) shall be apportioned among local authorities in accordance with the formula—F×GAwhere—
 F is the aggregate amount for the financial year in question;
 G is the relevant figure for the area of the local authority and the financial year in question, calculated as provided for in regulation 5(2) above; and
 A has the same meaning as in regulation 5(1) above.
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 Railtrack 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 Railways (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1994 is hereby revoked.
George Kynoch
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th March 1995
SCHEDULE 1
Article 5(2)


(1) (2) (3)
Local authority Figure relating to track and sidings Figure relating to other land
City of Aberdeen 994 994
Aberdeenshire 185 185
Angus 261 261
Argyll and Bute 185 185
East Ayrshire 265 265
North Ayrshire 618 618
South Ayrshire 617 617
The Borders 49 49
Clackmannan 469 469
Dumbarton and Clydebank 554 554
Dumfries and Galloway 107 107
East Dunbartonshire 283 283
City of Dundee 554 554
City of Edinburgh 1,544 6,933
Falkirk 558 558
Fife 455 455
City of Glasgow 2,404 11,239
Highland 89 89
Inverclyde 558 558
North Lanarkshire 413 413
South Lanarkshire 433 433
East Lothian 556 556
Midlothian 559 559
West Lothian 555 555
Moray 185 185
Perthshire and Kinross 556 556
East Renfrewshire 346 346
Renfrewshire 616 616
Stirling 557 557
SCHEDULE 2
Article 6(1)


(1) (2)
Local authority Apportioned amount £
District Councils:
Berwickshire 20,261
Clackmannan 13,828
Falkirk 325,986
Stirling 369,125
Annandale and Eskdale 128,104
Nithsdale 81,867
Wigtown 20,457
Dunfermline 280,903
Kirkcaldy 321,174
North East Fife 205,307
City of Aberdeen 322,141
Gordon 97,478
Kincardine and Deeside 101,838
Moray 114,738
Badenoch and Strathspey 20,005
Caithness 34,889
Inverness 211,970
Lochaber 127,382
Nairn 13,027
Ross and Cromarty 30,911
Skye and Lochalsh 4,174
Sutherland 21,768
East Lothian 360,389
City of Edinburgh 1,933,580
Midlothian 164,633
West Lothian 419,909
Argyll and Bute 22,804
Bearsden and Milngavie 38,336
Clydebank 68,530
Clydesdale 57,084
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 17,304
Cumnock and Doon Valley 67,224
Cunninghame 537,176
Dumbarton 391,241
East Kilbride 21,257
Eastwood 30,523
City of Glasgow 4,268,181
Hamilton 76,368
Inverclyde 178,009
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 166,892
Kyle and Carrick 766,529
Monklands 111,011
Motherwell 471,326
Renfrew 508,999
Strathkelvin 78,111
Angus 127,716
City of Dundee 165,723
Perth and Kinross 1,088,812