
1 
This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.
2 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005 is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3 
After article 7 (railways) insert–“
7A 

(1) Any lands and heritages which would (apart from this Order) be treated as justifying separate entries in two or more valuation rolls shall be treated for all purposes of the Valuation Acts as justifying only one entry in the valuation roll for Renfrewshire in respect of each fixed line operator if they are–
(a) occupied by that fixed line operator; and
(b) occupied by posts, wires, fibres, cables and ducts, telephone kiosks, towers, masts, switching equipment or other equipment, or by servitudes or wayleaves, being property used by that fixed line operator wholly or mainly for the purposes of monitoring, processing or transmission of communications signals for the provision of telecommunications services.
(2) A “fixed line operator” for the purposes of this article, is any of the companies registered at the date of this Order with the following names and registration numbers:

Company name Registration number
AOL (UK) Ltd 03462696
Atlas Connect Ltd SC241790
Be Un Limited 05262862
British Telecommunications plc 01800000
Cable & Wireless plc 00238525
Easynet Limited 02954343
Entanet International Ltd 03274237
Gamma Telecom Ltd 04340834
Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Ltd 02495998
Lumison SC236128
NEOS Networks Ltd 03477297
Ntl Business Ltd 3076222
Opal Telecom Limited 3849133
Orange Ltd 03110666
Pipex Broadband Ltd 03137499
Pipex Communications Services Ltd 03059016
Smallworld Media Communications Ltd 05679836
Telefónica O2 UK Limited 01743099
Tiscali UK Ltd 03408171
Thus plc SC192666
Verizon UK Limited 02776038
Virgin Media Group 02591237
Vtesse Networks Limited 03900836”.
4 

(1) At the end of column 1 in the Schedule (designated assessors for the valuation of utilities) add “Assessor for the Renfrewshire Valuation Joint Board”.
(2) At the end of column 2 in the Schedule add “The lands and heritages specified in article 7A (Fixed Line Telecommunications).”.
JOHN SWINNEY
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th March 2009