
2019 No. 45
Rating And Valuation
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019
Made 14th February 2019
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 18th February 2019
Coming into force 1st April 2019
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6A(1)(aa) and (1B) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956  and all other powers enabling them to do so.In accordance with section 6A(1D) that Act  they have consulted such associations of local authorities and such other persons as they think appropriate.
Citation and commencement
1 
This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 and comes into force on 1 April 2019.
Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005
2 
The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005  is amended in accordance with articles 3 to 6.

3 
For article 2(1)(b)(ii) (electricity generation) substitute—“
(ii) the primary source of energy in such generation is biomass, the use of wind, wave, water, tidal or solar power, or the burning of refuse.”.

4 
In the definition of  “a Company” in article 3(2) (electricity transmission and distribution), in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) for  “SP Transmission Limited” substitute “
            SP Transmission PLC
          ”.

5 
In the definition of  “Company” in article 4(3) (gas), omit  “at the date of this Order” in both places where it occurs.

6 
For article 7A(2) (fixed line telecommunications) substitute—“
(2) A  “fixed line operator”, for the purposes of this article, is any of the companies registered with the following names and registration numbers—
Company name Registration number
AtlasConnect Limited SC241790
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company 01800000
Cityfibre Limited 09759465
Centurylink Communications UK Limited 02495998
Easynet Limited 02954343
Entanet International Limited 03274237
Everything Everywhere Limited 08263590
Gamma Telecom Ltd 04340834
GEO Networks Limited 04614924
Hutchison 3G UK Limited 03885486
JISC 05747339
JISC Services Limited 02881024
NEOS Networks Limited 03477297
NTL Business Limited 03076222
Oath (UK) Limited 03462696
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Pipex Communications Services Limited 03059016
Pulsant (Scotland) Limited SC236128
Sky Home Communications Limited 05262862
Sky Telecommunications Services Limited 02883980
Smallworld Cable Limited 05679836
SSE Telecommunications Limited SC213457
Talktalk Communications Limited 03849133
Telefonica UK Limited 01743099
Thus Group Holdings Limited SC192666
Tiscali UK Limited 03408171
Verizon UK Limited 02776038
Virgin Media Limited 02591237
Vodafone Enterprise U.K. 01541957
Vodafone Limited 01471587
Interoute Vtesse Limited 03900836.”.
DEREK MACKAY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh
