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(1) This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 22nd December 1997.
(2) In this Order–
 “the Act” means the Local Government and Rating Act 1997;
 “the Census Report” means the publication “1991 Census -Key Statistics for Localities in Scotland” (ISBN 0 11 495736 3) which was published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1995 and was laid before Parliament pursuant to section 4(1) of the Census Act 1920.
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(1) There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Act (rural settlement list) each of the local authority areas specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order under exclusion of the localities specified in columns 2 and 3 of that Schedule opposite the name of the local authority area in question.
(2) The boundaries of the localities–
(a) specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order shall be the boundaries of those localities used for the purposes of the Census Report and referred to at paragraphs 4.1 to 4.18 of that publication;
(b) specified in column 3 of that Schedule shall be as notified by the Secretary of State no later than 19th December 1997 to the local authority within the area of which the locality in question lies.
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(1) £5,000 is the amount prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 3(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act (mandatory rate relief – maximum rateable value).
(2) £10,000 is the amount prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 4(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act (discretionary rate relief – maximum rateable value).
Malcolm Chisholm
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
21st November 1997
SCHEDULE
Article 2


Local authority area Excluded localities
1 2 3
Aberdeenshire BanchoryBanffBoddamEllonFraserburghHuntlyInverurieKemnayMacduffPeterheadPortlethenStonehavenTuriffWesthill
Angus ArbroathBrechinCarnoustieDundeeForfarHillsideKirriemuirMontrose Ferryden
Argyll and Bute ArdrishaigCampbeltownDunoonHelensburghLochgilpheadObanPort BannatyneRhu and ShandonRothesaySandbank
East Ayrshire AuchinleckBellsbankCumnockDalmellington and BurntonDarvelGalstonHurlford and CrookedholmKilmarnockLoganMauchlineNew CumnockNewmilnsStewarton
North Ayrshire ArdrossanBeithDalryDreghornIrvineKilbirnieKilwinningLargsSaltcoatsSpringsideStevenstonWest Kilbride
South Ayrshire AyrGirvanMaybolePrestwickTroon
Clackmannanshire AlloaAlvaClackmannanTillicoultryTullibody Coalsnaughton
Dumfries and Galloway AnnanCastle DouglasDalbeattieDumfriesGretnaKirkcudbrightLocharbriggsLockerbieNewton StewartStranraer
East Dunbartonshire BearsdenBishopbriggsKirkintillochLennoxtownLenzieMilngavieMilton of Campsie Twechar
West Dunbartonshire AlexandriaBonhillClydebankDumbartonDuntocher and HardgateFaifleyMiltonOld KilpatrickRenton
Falkirk BanknockBo'nessBonnybridgeCarronDennyDunipaceFalkirkGrangemouthHaggsPolmontShieldhillStenhousemuir California
Fife AnstrutherBallingryBuckhavenBurntislandCardendenCowdenbeathCrossgatesCuparDalgety BayDunfermlineEast WemyssGlenrothesHigh ValleyfieldInverkeithingKeltyKennowayKincardineKirkcaldyLeslieLeucharsLevenLochgellyLundin LinksMarkinchNewport-On-TayNorth QueensferryOakleyPittenweemSt AndrewsSt MonansTayportThorntonWindygates Coaltown of BalgonieGuardbridgeSpringfieldStratheden
Highland AlnessBallochCullodenDingwallFort WilliamInvergordonInvernessNairnSmithtonTainThursoWesthillWick
Inverclyde GourockGreenockKilmacolmPort Glasgow
North Lanarkshire AirdrieBargeddieBellshillCalderbankCarfinChapelhallChrystonClelandCoatbridgeCroyCumbernauldGlenmavisGowkthrappleHolytownKilsythMoodiesburnMotherwellMuirheadNewarthillNewmainsNew StevenstonOvertownPlainsShottsSteppsViewparkWishaw GartcoshQueenzieburn
South Lanarkshire AshgillBlantyreBothwellCarlukeEast KilbrideGlasgowHamiltonKirkmuirhill and BlackwoodLanarkLarkhallLesmahagowStonehouseStrathavenUddingston Kirkfieldbank
East Lothian CockenzieDunbarHaddingtonMusselburghNorth BerwickPrestonpansTranent
Midlothian BilstonBonnyriggDalkeithGorebridgeLoanheadMayfieldPenicuik
West Lothian ArmadaleBathgateBlackburnBroxburnDechmontEast CalderFauldhouseLinlithgowLivingstonPolbethWest CalderWhitburn MuriestonSeafield
Moray BuckieElginForresKeithLossiemouth FindhornPortgordon
Orkney Islands Kirkwall
Perth and Kinross AuchterarderBlairgowrieCrieffKinrossMilnathortNew SconePerth
East Renfrewshire BarrheadBusbyClarkstonEagleshamGiffnockNeilstonNewton Mearns
Renfrewshire BishoptonBridge of WeirElderslieErskineHoustonInchinnanJohnstoneKilbarchanLinwoodPaisleyRenfrew Brookfield
Scottish Borders EyemouthGalashielsHawickJedburghKelsoPeeblesSelkirk
Shetland Islands LerwickScalloway
Stirling BannockburnBridge of AllanDunblaneStirling
Western Isles LaxdaleStornoway CollSandwickTong