
1 
This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010. Article 2 shall come into force 31st March 2010 and all other articles shall come into force on 1st April 2010.
2 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009 is hereby revoked.
3 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005 is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
4 
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 
GEO Networks Limited 04614924 
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 LtdPipex Communications Services Ltd 0313749903059016 
Smallworld Media Communications Ltd 05679836 
SSE Telecommunications Limited SC213457 
Telefónica O2 UK Limited 01743099 
The JNT Association 02881024 
Tiscali UK Ltd 03408171 
Thus plc SC192666 
Verizon UK Limited 02776038 
Virgin Media Group 02591237 
Vtesse Networks Limited 03900836 ”.
5 

(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
9th February 2010