
1 
This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2010.
2 
Article 6 comes into force on 30th March 2010.
3 
Article 5 comes into force on 31st March 2010.
4 
All other articles come into force on 1st April 2010.
5 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009 is revoked.
6 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010 is revoked.
7 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005 is amended in accordance with articles 8 and 9.
8 
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) Limited 03462696
AtlasConnect Limited SC241790
Be Un Limited 05262862
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company 01800000
Cable and Wireless Public Limited Company 00238525
Easynet Limited 02954343
Entanet International Limited 03274237
Gamma Telecom Ltd 04340834
GEO Networks Limited 04614924
Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited 02495998
Lumison Limited SC236128
NEOS Networks Limited 03477297
NTL Business Limited 03076222
Opal Telecom Limited 03849133
Orange Limited 03110666
Pipex Broadband Limited 03137499
Pipex Communications Services Limited 03059016
Smallworld Cable Limited 05679836
SSE Telecommunications Limited SC213457
Telefónica O2 UK Limited 01743099
The JNT Association 02881024
Thus Group Holdings plc SC192666
Tiscali UK Limited 03408171
Verizon UK Limited 02776038
Virgin Media Limited 02591237
Vtesse Networks Limited 03900836.”.
9 

(1) At the end of column 1 in the Schedule (designated assessors for the valuation of utilities) insert a new entry “Assessor for the Renfrewshire Valuation Joint Board”.
(2) At the end of column 2 in the Schedule insert a new entry “The lands and heritages specified in article 7A (Fixed Line Telecommunications).”.
JOHN SWINNEY
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
3rd March 2010